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- {The music of the micro}
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- {Voice capabilities makes its way to the desktop...}
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- Text-based E-mail on office networks is yielding to its natural and
- efficient vocal successor, voice mail. Executives are learning that voice
- messaging is faster, carries the power of inflection, and requires less
- keyboard skill. Now Artisoft products take a step further in networking's
- sonic boom with the new ArtiScribe Digital Dictation System, the newest
- product in the NetMedia product line. It combines the Artisoft Sounding
- Board adapter and nearly any PC network to create a powerful business
- productivity tool. Using Sounding Board and its telephone style handset,
- ArtiScribe allows a user to dictate directly into his computer. The digital
- recording is instantly placed in a queue for later transcription at another
- node, where a transcriber uses Sounding Board and its headset. On the
- transcription end, the system accepts spoken commands such as {"stop,"}
- {"play"} and {"back"} to control the playback.
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- The ArtiScribe Digital Dictation System will be available in a two-station
- starter kit (which includes two Sounding Boards, a handset, a headset and
- software for two stations) for $499 in ISA bus, $699 for Micro Channel
- Architecture. A one-station software-only version of ArtiScribe is priced at
- $149. The system becomes available this summer.
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- At the same time, Artisoft's existing voice products are being upgraded
- to version 1.1. The new Artisoft Sounding Board adapter is an update from
- the LANtastic Voice Adapter. A key new feature is SoundPUP, a software
- tape recorder that pops up from DOS as a TSR (terminate and stay
- resident) program to record a sudden flash of insight, either related to the
- application currently in use, or as just an unrelated notepad to catch that
- fleeting great idea before it's gone. It is also provided as a Windows
- application. Sounding Board offer exceptional clarity in sound, surpassing
- AM radio transmission. It will be compatible with Microsoft Windows in real,
- standard and enhanced modes, and will include programmer's tools to
- encourage development of new applications. Individual Sounding Boards
- with handset sell for $99 each in ISA bus versions and $199 for Micro
- Channel.
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- For programmers, the Artisoft Voice Programmer's Interface is a $75
- toolbox for incorporating voice and sound into software applications. VPI
- is an improvement on the clean design and outstanding performance that
- won acclaim in its original release. The VPI subroutines provide the means
- for adapting Sounding Board to third party applications quickly and easily,
- including all three modes of Microsoft Windows. VPI will support
- QuickBASIC, dBASE, Turbo-C and Turbo-Pascal, in addition to the earlier
- version's support for Microsoft C and MASM languages. The price of VPI
- has been kept to a bare minimum, to make Artisoft's voice programming
- tools accessible to as many developers as possible. Look for Sounding
- Board and the ArtiScribe Digital Dictation System this fall.
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