IBM Brings ViaVoice to the Mac

Almost everyone who crowded into the Macworld gallery to watch the keynote
address today was very impressed when IBM demonstrated ViaVoice for
Macintosh, software that brings IBM's award winning speech recognition
software to the Macintosh. "ViaVoice," said Steve Jobs, "will enable
Macintosh customers to interact with software applications in the most
natural way possible - simply by speaking."  

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