SRAPI COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO SUPPORT SPEECH RECOGNITION API IN FUTURE
PRODUCTS

Speech Recognition API to Become the Industry Standard

OREM, Utah -- April 6, 1995 -- The Speech Recognition Application
Programming Interface (SRAPI) Committee today announced that several
members have committed to supporting its speech recognition API in their
upcoming products. Supporting vendors include Dragon Systems, IBM, Kolvox
Communications, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Lernout & Hauspie Speech
Products, Philips Dictation Systems, Voice Processing Corp. and Novell,
Inc. Intel Corp., an active member of the Committee, has also committed to
support the speech recognition API through the work of its Intel
Architecture Labs.

The Speech Recognition API Committee is comprised of many of the leading
companies in speech recognition. A main goal of the committee is to create
a standard for interaction between independent software vendor (ISV)
products and speech recognition vendors. The committee supports general
dictation speech recognizers, enabling users enter to data and create text
through dictation, and command and control speech recognizers which allow
users to navigate through operating systems and applications.

The openly defined speech recognition API will allow ISVs and application
developers to integrate their products and applications with speech
technology and various speech recognizers, further promoting the use of
this emerging and enabling technology. ISVs and application developers can
build applications written to the speech recognition API specifications to
operate with speech solutions from the industry's leading speech
recognition vendors.

"Speech recognition technology becomes a very effective productivity tool
when it is tightly integrated with software applications," said Novell's
Bruce Armstrong, chairman, SRAPI Committee. "The goal of the Committee has
been to develop and promote a universal, robust speech solution,
effectively minimizing the burden on application developers to build
speech-enabled applications. The speech recognition API provides an
excellent method and standard for applications to utilize the productivity
benefits of speech technology. With the major speech recognition vendors
supporting the SRAPI Committee speech recognition API, we expect it to
become the defacto industry standard."

"Before speech recognition standards, speech application developers had two
difficult options," said William S. Meisel, publisher/editor, Speech
Recognition Update. "They could develop a fully integrated application --
like a word processor -- from scratch, re-inventing the wheel. Or they
could poke at an existing application from outside, often simulating
keyboard entry or menu selection, and end up with an application that did
not use the full power of speech recognition. The SRAPI effort offers a
solution to this dilemma."

Distribution of the speech recognition API is targeted for general
availability in 1995. The API will be royalty free with unlimited
licensing. Initially targeted at the Windows 3.1 and Windows 95
environments, the SRAPI Committee will soon add support for UNIX, OS/2,
NetWare and OpenDoc.

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