“Lernout & Hauspie has unveiled its automatic speech
recognition and text-to-speech engines running on a prototype
CyberGenie 2400 from Cygnion (a spin-off from Ericsson that is now
funded by the WK Technology Fund). At the Demo 2000 meeting at
Indian Wells, Cal.”
“L&H claimed a first for its large-vocabulary engine,
which runs on Linux, and makes it possible to listen to the full
text, or summaries, of email. The demo included ordering a
book from Amazon.com, finding the weather forecast, and carrying
out a stock transaction online from a PDA, all using voice
commands.”