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From: gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Voice Activated Computer (Articulate Systems)
Message-ID: <19902@imag.imag.fr>
Date: 30 Mar 91 13:39:06 GMT
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Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
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I got a Voice Navigator II and it's a pretty good product.
It works the following way:
For each application you define a set of macros with a name.
The macro editor is very powerfull, and the macros are editable.
There are no, however, tests or loops.
You then learn VoiceNave the sound it should responds for each
macro name.
Say you define an "Open" macro that selects the Open commands
from the file menu. You then go in training mode and say in the
mike "Open" (or whatever you want by the way, like "Ouvrir" or
"Abrir"). You repeat three times. After, when you say "Open" in the
mike, VoiceNav does the macro. Simple.

So you can't have connected-words recognition (that is speak whole
sentences like in the Knowledge Navigator video). It also only
recognize your voice, altough it may partially recognize others
voice if of the same sex.

And, as usual :"I am in no way affiliated with Articulate Systems, Inc
and I only give here my testimony as a satisfied buyer".

Arnaud.
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