Fw: BlindNews: Microsoft, ScanSoft pair up for speech software

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From: "Leon Gilbert" <BlindNews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Blind News Mailing List" <BlindNews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 8:21 PM
Subject: BlindNews: Microsoft, ScanSoft pair up for speech software


> CNET News
> Wednesday, November 17, 2004
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> Microsoft, ScanSoft pair up for speech software
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> By Dinesh C. Sharma
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> Microsoft announced Wednesday that it plans to use text-to-speech
technology from ScanSoft in its server application product lines.
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> The expanded deal covers the full portfolio of ScanSoft products, as well
as access to the company's services unit and Virtuoso custom voice program,
the companies said.
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> ScanSoft's text-to-speech software will be featured in a range of
Microsoft server products, beginning with Speech Server 2004. Text-to-speech
software is designed to convert written text into spoken words.
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> Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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>  Technology companies are increasingly working on voice recognition
software that could let consumers use spoken commands with devices such as
cell phones. Such software can also help automated customer-service
answering systems better respond to voice navigation.
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> ScanSoft is one of the leading makers of voice recognition software. It
has attracted interest from other computing giants as well, such as IBM.
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> "Microsoft and ScanSoft share a common vision for bringing speech
technologies into the mainstream," Kai-Fu Lee, vice president for speech
technologies at Microsoft, said in a statement. "The breadth and humanlike
quality of ScanSoft's TTS (text-to-speech) technology was a key factor in
our decision to partner strategically with ScanSoft in this area."
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