Speech recognition developer Philips Speech Processing of Vienna, Austria will provide its speech engine to Talk Technology under a new agreement between the companies. Philips becomes the latest of several speech engines supported by Talk, an Agfa subsidiary based in Bensalem, PA.
Philips will supply its Speech SDK (software development kit) and SpeechMagic engine to Talk, which will incorporate them into its TalkStation product line. TalkStation is an integrated package for speech recognition-based reporting, and already supports speech engines from IBM, Microsoft, and Dragon. Talk believes that supporting multiple speech engines gives it the flexibility to deliver the most advanced speech software to customers at any given time.
In other Philips Speech Processing news, the company has signed a deal to provide SpeechMagic and Recorder SDK software to GE Medical Systems Information Technologies. The GE unit will integrate speech recognition and digital dictation into its Centricity Medora RIS application.
Finally, Philips displayed SpeechMagic version 5.1 at last week’s European Congress of Radiology. The new version reduces training time to two minutes compared to 90 minutes with version 4.0, and also includes features such as automatic punctuation, silence, and hesitation and contraction detection and elimination. The new version also supports multiple input devices for every user with the same license, according to Philips.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersMarch 13, 2002
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