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The high-accuracy speech recognition solution
VoiceType Dictation for OS/2 and Windows
Highlights
IBM VoiceType Dictation offers:
o A personal productivity investment
- No more typing
- Proven IBM technology
- Work where you want
o Capture precisely what you say
- Accurate speech-to-text
- Optional vocabularies improve accuracy
o Work the way you think
- Maintain your train of thought
- Create text while busy
A PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY INVESTMENT
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Once the realm of science fiction and futurism, talking to a computer
instead of typing is now a practical and affordable solution for a
wide variety of professionals. With IBM VoiceType(TM). Dictation for
OS/2(R) or IBM VoiceType Dictation for Windows,(TM). people can create
text quickly and efficiently simply by talking to a desktop personal
computer, notebook or subnotebook PC.
NO MORE TYPING
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VoiceType Dictation transforms spoken words into accurate text that is
available within seconds-without typing, and without the
time-consuming, labor-intensive process of manually transcribing
dictation.
The result is increased productivity and faster turnaround. For
people who need to use their hands and eyes and simultaneously create
written information, this increase can be even more pronounced. For
example, doctors can review X-rays or examine patients and dictate
their findings directly into the computer. This means they can see and
verify reports onscreen, then transfer them immediately into the
medical records system. Nurses can update patient charts at the
bedside-by voice input. And because no transcription is needed, the
results can be available to other medical professionals sooner.
The capabilities of speech recognition technology can be just as
valuable in other professions. Attorneys can develop briefs while
working with research materials. Reporters can dictate stories rather
than using the keyboard. Executives can call up database information
or dictate their electronic messages.
ANYONE CAN BENEFIT
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VoiceType Dictation can speed information handling in almost any
paper- and forms-intensive office environment, or wherever people need
to dictate while working with their hands and eyes free for other
tasks. By making speech recognition technology readily available to
the millions of users of PCs, VoiceType Dictation represents the
beginning of a major change in the way people interact with computers.
What's more, VoiceType Dictation can enable those people who cannot
use a keyboard to enter data, create text and run most business
applications. This can help organizations meet the special needs of
employees, plus make computer resources available to people who simply
aren't comfortable with typing.
PROVEN IBM TECHNOLOGY
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VoiceType Dictation is pure IBM technology, based on more than two
decades of IBM research and development. Developed in conjunction with
IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, VoiceType Dictation's speech
recognition technology and high-accuracy language models were
previously available only in the award-winning IBM Personal Dictation
System product.
CAPTURE PRECISELY WHAT YOU SAY
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VoiceType Dictation for OS/2 and VoiceType Dictation for Windows run
on IBM-compatible desktop, notebook or subnotebook personal computers
with 486 or Pentium(TM). processors. It is an isolated-word,
speaker-dependent system that utilizes sophisticated statistical
language models and a speech adapter card-both designed by IBM-to
rapidly analyze spoken input.
ACCURATE SPEECH-TO-TEXT
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The language models, an extensive 22,000-word general vocabulary and a
detailed understanding of each user's voice, allow VoiceType Dictation
to accurately convert speech to text as quickly as 70 to 100 words a
minute- faster than most people can type. Users simply talk into a
hand-held or headset microphone. The system analyzes their speech in
seconds and displays it onscreen as text.
Properly recognized words are automatically displayed correctly. Even
like-sounding words that are difficult to distinguish-such as "to,"
"too" and "two" or "our" and "hour"-are easily understood.
With voice commands, users can edit or correct dictated text while it
is displayed in the VoiceType Dictation speech window. VoiceType
Dictation can even "play back" a user's dictation for easier
proofreading. Dictated text can then be transferred into OS/2 or
Windows applications for processing.
VoiceType Dictation can be ordered with ISA, Micro Channel(R) or
PCMCIA(TM). (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association)
speech adapter cards. The cards handle voice processing and word
recognition functions, independent of the computer's processor, and
provide audio support for the microphone and speaker.
OPTIONAL VOCABULARIES IMPROVE ACCURACY
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You can optimize VoiceType Dictation and increase accuracy for various
professions, including medicine and journalism, by taking advantage of
specialty vocabularies, available as an option. Easily installed,
these vocabularies include words, spellings, word probabilities and
linguistic information that enable VoiceType Dictation to correctly
"hear" industry-specific words. Optional vocabularies include:
o VoiceType Vocabulary for Radiology Dictation. 19,000 words.
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Carefully constructed for radiologists to use while reading X-rays
or films, this vocabulary includes medical terminology for
radiology and related specialties.
o VoiceType Vocabulary for Emergency Medicine Dictation. 16,000
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words. This vocabulary contains medical terms used in hospital
emergency room environments. It can also be used by other doctors
and health-care professionals.
o VoiceType Vocabulary for Journalism Dictation. 30,000 words.
______________________________________________
Constructed from the archives of major news- papers, this
vocabulary includes a variety of significant proper names, as well
as editorial terminology.
o VoiceType Vocabulary for Legal Dictation. 25,000 words. This
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vocabulary was created in conjunction with West Publishing and is
designed for corporate and private law practices. The legal
terminology includes citation support for both federal and state
statutes and court reporters. The vocabulary also contains many
commonly used legal abbreviations.
You can also customize VoiceType Dictation's base vocabulary by adding
up to 2,000 of your own words.
ADAPTS TO YOU
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VoiceType Dictation is a user-specific speech recognition solution.
This allows the system to deliver the highest accuracy, while
supporting an extensive vocabulary of general and specific terms and
accommodating the natural variations in pronunciation from speaker to
speaker.
The initial enrollment process for each speaker takes about an hour
and a half of the user's time. The process also helps individuals
learn the "discrete" speech pattern-short, clear spaces between
words-understood by VoiceType dictation. As people use the system,
VoiceType Dictation continues to learn each person's speaking style,
further increasing accuracy and instant word recognition.
CREATE CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS EASILY
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The Voice Action Editor, along with built-in support for OS/2 and
Windows applications and sophisticated APIs (application program
interfaces), make it easy to develop customized speech recognition
solutions built around IBM's VoiceType Dictation.
The Voice Action Editor is a powerful yet simple voice-controlled
macro application. Individual users can create dictation macros with
the Voice Action Editor by prerecording repetitive phrases or
"boilerplate" paragraphs and later recalling them with a single spoken
word.
With the same ease, developers or systems experts can build
application-specific macros that invoke and control other programs.
The system prompts you by displaying all possible voice or
keyboard-activated commands. Plus, you can store a series of
keystrokes as a voice-command macro.
The possibilities are limited only by your imagination. The command
"Good morning," for example, could automatically call up a calendar
program. Or "Save report" could call up a dialogue box for naming,
identifying and saving a radiology report, then transfer the file to
the medical records system and place it in a work queue for text
processing.
SUPPORT FOR OS/2 AND WINDOWS APPLICATIONS
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VoiceType Dictation works in concert with existing OS/2, OS/2 Warp,
and Windows operating systems and applications. Using voice, mouse or
keyboard commands, you can transfer dictated data to most OS/2 and
Windows applications that support a data transfer clipboard via
cut-and-paste functions. Keystroke emulation macros enable voice
command transfer of data to applications that do not support
cut-and-paste. What's more, you can use voice commands to invoke many
operating system and application functions.
VoiceType Dictation includes automatic speech enabling of the OS/2
Workplace Shell(R) and Presentation Manager(R) application controls.
This means users can select and operate Presentation Manager
applications by speaking words that appear on menu bars, list boxes,
push buttons, check boxes and radio buttons.
Compatible OS/2 applications include:
o WordPerfect(R) for OS/2 V5.2
o Lotus(R) 1-2-3(R) for OS/2 V1.1
o Lotus Notes(R) for OS/2 V3.0
o Microsoft(R) Word(R) for OS/2 V1.1
o OS/2 System Editor V2.1
o OS/2 Communications Manager 3270 Emulator V2.0
o DeScribe(TM). for OS/2 V4.0.
Features Benefits
Voice-to-text capability
o Facilitates the creation of documents
o Saves time and increases productivity
by eliminating transcription
o Provides a solution for people who are
unable (or unwilling) to use a keyboard
Hands-free, eyes-free operation
o Enables users in technical, production
and office environments to dictate
text, produce reports or fill in forms
while using their hands and eyes
for other tasks
o Physicians and other medical personnel
can read X-rays or examine patients
and describe findings simultaneously
Large general-language vocabulary
o Provides a ready-to-use language model
designed to serve a wide range of
professional and business users
o Helps ensure accurate word capture
o Allows you to customize the system
easily by adding up to 2,000 words to
the vocabulary
Optional industry-specific vocabularies
o Ready-to-use solutions for radiology,
emergency medicine, journalism
and legal enhance applications
o Specialized terminology and
word-pattern models enable the system
to frequently recognize words that are
run together, slurred or partially
obscured by background noise
o Support for additional industry-
specific vocabularies is continually
being expanded.
Speaker enrollment function
o Maximizes dictation accuracy by
creating a model for every individual
speaker
Clipboard data transfer
o Transfer dictated text to OS/2 and
Windows applications by cut-and-paste,
using voice, keyboard or mouse
commands
o Use keyboard emulation to transfer
data into applications that do
not support cut-and-paste
Navigation controls
o Use voice commands to operate OS/2,
Windows and compatible applications
o Includes automatic "speech enabling"
of the OS/2 WorkPlace Shell and
Presentation Manager controls, as
well as Windows icons and tool bars
Voice Action Editor
o Allows users and developers to define
macros that perform a sequence
of actions with a single voice command
o Facilitates development of customized,
application-specific solutions
o Increases productivity by letting
users insert prerecorded phrases or
paragraphs of repetitive text with a
single spoken word
PCMCIA VoiceType Dictation Adapter
o Supports notebook computers for
transportable dictation solutions
o Helps make it easy for people to use
the system, wherever they need to
work
Multiple language support o Available for OS/2 and Windows in
U.S. English, U.K. English, French,
German, Italian and Spanish.
Speech support for Windows and Windows applications allows users to
select icons and tool-bar functions with voice commands. Compatible
Windows applications include:
o Intuit(R) Quicken(R) V3.0
o Lotus 1-2-3 V4.01
o Lotus Notes V3.0
o Lotus Ami Pro(R) V3.01
o Lotus cc:Mail(TM). V2.0
o Microsoft Word V6.0
o Microsoft Excel(TM). V5.0
o Microsoft Works(TM). for Windows V3.0
o WordPerfect for Windows V6.0.
Support for OS/2 and Windows applications is continually being
expanded. Ask for a current list of compatible applications.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN A SINGLE PACKAGE
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The IBM VoiceType Dictation solution includes:
o 3.5-inch 1.44MB program diskettes
o User's Guide with Program License Agreement
o One IBM VoiceType Dictation Adapter (ISA, Micro Channel or PCMCIA)
o One IBM-qualified microphone.
VOICE YOUR REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION
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To learn more about how IBM VoiceType Dictation can help you enhance
your productivity, please contact us:
On CompuServe(R)
Use GO TALK2ME on CompuServe.
On the Internet:
You can reach us on the Internet at talk2me@vnet.ibm.com
On the telephone:
Call us at 1-800-TALK-2-ME (1-800-825-5263) Monday through Friday
between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Central Time.
IBM VoiceType Dictation at a glance
Hardware requirements for OS/2
o IBM-compatible personal computer with a minimum of a 486SX 25MHz
microprocessor
o 3.5-inch 1.44MB diskette drive
o Minimum of 8MB of memory above operating system and application
requirements
o 33MB hard-disk space available (plus an additional 30MB during
the enrollment process)
Hardware requirements for Windows
o IBM-compatible personal computer with a minimum of a 486SX/SLC
25MHz with math coprocessor (486DX 33MHz processor recommended)
o Minimum of 12MB of memory (16MB recommended)
o 33MB hard-disk space available (plus an additional 30MB during
the enrollment process)
o DOS 5.2 or higher with Windows 3.1/3.11 or Windows for
Workgroups 3.1/3.11 (DOS 6.1 required for PCMCIA)
Additional requirements for OS/2 or Windows
o Additional disk space for optional industry-specific vocabularies
--VoiceType Vocabulary for Radiology Dictation: 16MB
--VoiceType Vocabulary for Emergency Medicine Dictation: 16MB
--VoiceType Vocabulary for Journalism Dictation: 14MB
--VoiceType Vocabulary for Legal Dictation: 15MB
o An IBM-qualified microphone (shipped with the software)
o One available ISA or Micro Channel expansion slot or PCMCIA
Type II slot
o An IBM VoiceType Dictation Adapter (shipped with the software)
o Optional speaker and appropriate cables
Software requirements
o OS/2 Version 2.1 or higher
o DOS 5.2 or higher with Windows 3.1/3.11, or Windows for
Workgroups 3.1/3.11 (DOS 6.1 is required for PCMCIA)
o IBM VoiceType Dictation is a prerequisite for optional VoiceType
vocabularies
Limitations
o IBM VoiceType Dictation and its files should not be compressed
with disk compression utilities such as Stacker(TM). and
DoubleSpace(TM).
o IBM VoiceType Dictation may not work with all processor upgrade
boards
IBM
(C) International Business Machines Corporation 1995
IBM Corporation
Department 507
1133 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604
Produced in the United States of America
5-95
All Rights Reserved
References in this publication to IBM products or services
do not imply that IBM intends to make them available outside
the United States.
IBM, OS/2, Micro Channel, Workplace Shell and
Presentation Manager are registered trademarks of
International Business Machines Corporation.
VoiceType is a trademark of International Business
Machines Corporation.
Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks
of their respective companies.
Screens shown in this publication are prototypes. Actual
screens generated by the product delivered by IBM may
differ.
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