VOICE-CONTROLLED MS WORD
Lernout & Hauspie, a speech technology software vendor, will introduce a
voice-controlled software editor for Microsoft Word in the fall.  Users will
be able to select a sentence, underline a group of words, and change the
color and size of a font, all by naturally spoken voice.  "It'll make people
give up the mouse," says Lernout & Hauspie's chief technology officer.  The
Lernout & Hauspie product uses discrete dictation pathology software from
Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, which it acquired earlier this year.
Kurzweil's artificial intelligence technology allows the software to prompt
users for answers as if they were entering information onto a form.  The
initial product will be aimed specifically at pathologists, with other
versions for the legal profession and police reporting to follow.
(InfoWorld Electric 17 Jul 97)