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GFT Group Inc. Seeks Beta Testers for Petrana Presentation Controller: PowerPoint by Voice Command

GFT Group Inc. seeks beta testers for the Petrana Presentation Controller. The Petrana Presentation Controller is a Microsoft Windows software program that enables presenters to control PowerPoint presentations entirely by voice command, to jump to slides in any order as needed, to bring up answers to frequently asked questions immediately without paging through irrelevant slides or fumbling with the slide sorter, to launch external programs and video, and to trigger rhetorical questions asked by the computer for dramatic effect. User defined voice cues enable the presenter to control the presentation without interfering with the flow of the spoken presentation. The Petrana Presentation Controller improves communication by enabling the presenter to adapt the presentation to audience requirements during the presentation and by enabling the presenter to ask questions and interact with the audience.

Gft Group Inc. Offers Faster Code Obfuscation and Encryption for Dragon NaturallySpeaking

GFT Group Inc. offers a technology for code obfuscation and encryption for Dragon NaturallySpeaking Advanced Scripting commands, the Petrana Code Mangler. Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a state-of-the-art commercial speech-recognition program from Nuance (formerly ScanSoft). Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional, Medical, and Legal support Advanced Scripting commands are written in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The Petrana Code Mangler enables third-party developers of add-on software for Dragon NaturallySpeaking to offer trial versions of their software for evaluation by potential customers, to offer sale versions of their software that require an activation key, and to reduce the risks of software piracy and reverse engineering of Dragon NaturallySpeaking add-on software.

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NHANDZ and Stardock Announce KLP with Skype Control

Hotkey Freeware positions Skype for the Digital Home with Audio Device Switching, Alphanumeric Speed Dial, and more for PC and Mac Dual Booters

As you may have heard, Dell is recalling 4.1 million laptop batteries. You can read more at this link: https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/Default.aspx

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NHANDZ Releases Audio Caller ID for Skype VOIP

Freeware Lets Skype Users Hear Who's Calling

San Francisco, CA, July 27, 2006 – NHANDZ, a digital home company offering input devices and software that enable remote control of PC/Mac’s, announced the release of AudioID for Skype. AudioID is the latest NHANDZ product developed for the popular VOIP service, Skype (owned by eBay). The company’s suite of Skype products for both PC and Mac platforms enable remote control of Skype in other, more relaxed areas of the home—away from the desktop. As such, they are designed to avoid the necessity of using a mouse (and flat surface) nor view of a monitor screen that is typically required for use of Skype.

Press Release Source: Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance Introduces Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 - Advanced Speech Recognition that Transforms the PC Experience
Tuesday July 18, 8:00 am ET  Dramatic Accuracy Gains and Eliminating Training Requirements Create Superior and More Natural PC Experience for Everyone

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We've wrapped our final beta. You can download it here: www.adondo.net.

I'm not aware of any software package that takes MS Speech (SAPI) quite as far as Personal Audio Link does.

PAL voice-enables your PC (command & control), and allows remote access by telephone (VoIP). You can use PAL locally as well: either by micorophone or by mouse-click.

NS8.1 Preferred on a WinXP machine, Word 2002.

Is it possible to add a menu point to the right mouse button that will open the correction window with the mouse? I like to do my corrections with keyboard/mouse (and this laptop doesn't have a dedicated number keypad).

I would mainly need this for use in MS Word but I would like to have it in Outlook, so I guess doing it with some sort of Word macro isn't a solution.

For several reasons, I had to remove Vocola from my system, so I can't use that as a solution either (if there happened to be a way to do it with Vocola).

Stan

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Speakables Announces Voice Control for iPhoto

Speakables for iPhoto lets users launch Slideshows by voice.

San Francisco, CA, October 25, 2005 - Speakables, a voice recognition software company with offerings tailored to entertainment applications for the digital home, announced the release of Speakables for iPhoto. Speakables for iPhoto is the newest addition to the company's Mac OS X entertainment suite, including Speakables for iTunes, the first voice recognition program to enable users to launch iTunes playlists, and Speakables for TV, the first voice control for popular Mac-based PVRs. Speakables was developed by speech recognition experts, including a key developer of Apple's Speech Recognition technology.