Re: [NTLK] [OT] Speech code from IBM to become open source

From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 15:27:57 PDT


On Sep 13, 2004, at 1:50 PM, J.Edward Boniakowski wrote:

>
>> There was a demo. It only recognised the names of US states. Dragon
>> was in its name or the name of the company that made it, I believe.
>>
>> -James
>
> The dragon code is now in the hands of ScanSoft, where good code goes
> to rot and die. There's a long depressing story about the whole thing
> in the wired archives.
>
They are kind of like an evil empire aren't they? Strange.

Marty

PS No doubt there are some Microsoft dirty tricks in this story
somewhere...

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