IBM Puts Voice on Palm 
IBM announces ViaVoice version for handhelds, non-PC devices (like cars). 

by Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld 
March 8, 2000, 6:55 a.m. PT 

At the Mobile Insights 2000 conference, IBM demonstrated its speech
recognition and text-to-speech technology on a Palm III personal digital
assistant. The Personal Speech Assistant prototype shown on stage was
attached to the back of a Palm III, similar to other Palm III add-ons. Inside
the PSA unit was the Embedded ViaVoice software, optimized for both the Palm
OS and an NEC embedded processor. 

In the demonstration, billed as only a technology demo, IBM official David
Barnes made numerous voice-command and control calls to the unit, which
responded by verifying appointments, taking short messages, and translating
selected words into Spanish and Japanese. 

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