Speech Recognition Family: IBM Personal Dictation System Bringing the power of speech to personal computers GET LARGE-VOCABULARY ACCURACY How to have an easier relationship with your PC? Just talk to it. Because now, you can create business and medical text - quickly and accurately - simply by speaking to your OS/2((R)) workstation. The highly accurate IBM Personal Dictation System actually analyzes your spoken words and then enters them into your computer. Using a sophisticated general office dictation language model, it lets you dictate: o Letters o Reports o Electronic mail o Office correspondence o Technical documents o Medical transcriptions o Legal correspondence o Contracts As a result, you no longer have to use a keyboard to enter words or data. You can even run applications without using the keyboard. This capability is especially important for business professionals, as well as others in paper- and forms-intensive occupations, such as: o Doctors o Nurses o Lawyers o Reporters o Loan officers o Auditors o Insurance personnel o Researchers Winner of Byte magazine's 1993 Spring and Fall Comdex awards, the IBM ____ Personal Dictation System even has optional vocabularies for journalists, doctors, and other medical personnel, which include specialized terminology and language models. No matter what kind of occupation you are in, you can use your computer more comfortably and productively with the IBM Personal Dictation System. So, if typing interferes with your work - or you never learned how to type - the IBM Personal Dictation System may be the solution for you. HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS As you dictate your text into a handheld or a headset microphone, the system analyzes it and displays it in a speech window. You can dictate text as fast as 70 to 100 words a minute. And, because properly recognized words are automatically spelled correctly, you don't even need to perform a spell check. Text can be transferred into applications running on OS/2, DOS guests or WIN-OS/2(TM) windows. Because the IBM Personal Dictation System uses sophisticated statistical language models and a high-performance speech accelerator card on a Personal System/2,((R)) ValuePoint(TM) or compatible workstation, it is highly accurate. For example, it can correctly choose between like-sounding words, such as "to," "two" and "too" or "our" and "hour." Using the Voice Action Editor, you can easily create special commands, or incorporate standard phrases and paragraphs into documents. Sophisticated APIs (Application Program Interfaces) are also available for application developers. The IBM Personal Dictation System uses a speech adapter card designed by IBM to rapidly analyze your spoken input. These adapter cards are available for a wide range of personal computers, including most IBM compatibles, IBM ValuePoint computers (which accept ISA bus cards), and IBM PS/2((R)) computers (which accept Micro Channel((R)) cards). OPTIONAL VOCABULARIES To make the system even more accurate for medical and journalistic dictation, you can order optional vocabularies for these areas. Easily installed, the vocabularies include words, spellings, word probabilities, and linguistic information, which enable the IBM Personal Dictation System to correctly "hear" industry-specific words. The following vocabularies can be ordered separately: o Journalism - 30,000 words. Constructed from the archives of major newspapers, this vocabulary includes a variety of significant proper names, as well as the terminology used in various editorial sections. o Emergency medicine - 16,000 words. This vocabulary includes medical terms used in hospital emergency room environments; it's also appropriate for other doctors and health-care professionals. o Radiology - 19,000 words. Carefully constructed for radiologists, this vocabulary includes medical terminology used in radiology and related specialties. SUPPORTED APPLICATIONS The IBM Personal Dictation System currently provides support for the following applications: o WordPerfect((R)) for OS/2 Version 5.2 o WordPerfect for Windows(TM) Version 5.2 o Lotus Notes((R)) for OS/2 Version 3.0 o Lotus((R)) 1-2-3((R)) for OS/2 Version 1.1 o OS/2 PM Workplace Shell((R)) Version 2.1 o OS/2 System Editor Version 2.1 o OS/2 Communications Manager 3270 Emulator Version 2.0 o Microsoft((R)) Word((R)) for OS/2 Version 1.1 o DeScribe(TM) for OS/2 Version 4.0 In addition, you can use the IBM Personal Dictation System with most applications that run on the OS/2 2.1 desktop and that support a data transfer clipboard via the Paste/Edit function. For applications that do not support Paste, you can use keystroke emulation. You can transfer data to your application by voice, mouse or keyboard. WHERE IT WAS DEVELOPED The IBM Personal Dictation System was developed by IBM in Boca Raton in conjunction with IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. It is an isolated-word, speaker-dependent system using language models developed by IBM to achieve its high accuracy. WHAT YOU GET The IBM Personal Dictation System is shipped with the following materials: o 3.5-inch diskettes o Installation/User's Guide o Program License Agreement o Proof of License o License information o Headset microphone o Assembly instructions FOR ORDERS AND MORE INFORMATION To learn more about the IBM Personal Dictation System - and how it can enhance productivity in your organization - contact your IBM marketing representative or call 1 800 TALK 2 ME (1 800 825-5263). Inquiries from dealers, software developers and resellers are also welcome. +------------------------------------------------------+ | | |"THE SOFTWARE IS TRULY EXCITING... | |IT HAS THE CAPABILITY OF RADICALLY | |CHANGING THE WAY IN WHICH | |PEOPLE DEAL WITH PERSONAL | |COMPUTERS." | | | |COLIN MITTY, CORPORATE COUNSEL | |FOR OSBORNE COMPUTERS AUSTRALIA | | | +------------------------------------------------------+ FEATURES BENEFITS +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | VOICE-TO-TEXT | o Facilitates the production of | | CAPABILITY | business, medical or technical | | | documents. | | | o Permits users who are reluctant or | | | unable to use a keyboard to run key | | | business applications. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | OS/2 WORKPLACE SHELL | o Allows users to control the US English | | NAVIGATION FUNCTION | OS/2 2.1 Workplace Shell and | | | applications by voice. | | | o Includes mechanism that automatically | | | "speech enables" the Workplace Shell | | | and any OS/2 applications that rely on | | | the standard Presentation Manager((R)) | | | controls. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | EYE-FREE OPERATION | o Allows users to read documents such as | | | X-rays and describe findings | | | simultaneously. | | | o Permits users to dictate while using | | | their hands for other tasks. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | LARGE VOCABULARY | o Helps ensure accurate word capture. | | | o Allows you to personalize the system | | | by adding up to 2,000 words to the | | | system vocabulary. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | GENERAL OFFICE | o Provides a ready-to-use 22,000-word | | DICTATION | language model designed to serve a | | LANGUAGE MODEL | wide range of business professionals. | | | o Incorporates a variety of commonly | | | used office terminology, so it's easy | | | to customize. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | OPTIONAL | o Let you customize the system for | | INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC | journalists, emergency medical | | VOCABULARIES | personnel and radiologists. | | | o Provide specialized terminology and | | | word-pattern models that enable the | | | system to frequently recognize words | | | that are run together, slurred or | | | partially obscured by background | | | noise. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | MULTIPLE LANGUAGE | o Includes US English in the United | | SUPPORT | States, Canada and Europe. IBM also | | | intends to provide French, German, | | | Italian, Spanish and UK English in | | | Europe, the Middle East and Africa. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | APPLICATION PROGRAM | o Let developers customize their | | INTERFACES (APIS) | end-user interfaces. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | SPEAKER ENROLLMENT | o Allows you to create a speaker model | | FUNCTION | of your accent by speaking a set of | | | numbered sentences. The system | | | analyzes the spoken sentences and | | | creates an accurate speaker model for | | | you. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | NAVIGATION CONTROLS | o Allow you to speak the words appearing | | | in the menu bar, as well as the push | | | buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, | | | and list boxes within Presentation | | | Manager applications. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | DICTATION | o Transfers text to an application by | | | cut-and-paste or by keyboard | | | emulation. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | VOICE ACTION EDITOR | o Allows you to define command macros | | | that perform a sequence of actions | | | with a single voice command. | +----------------------+--------------------------------------------+ IBM PERSONAL DICTATION SYSTEM AT A GLANCE +------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS | o IBM PS/2, ValuePoint or compatible | | | system with a 486SX 25 MHz | | | microprocessor or higher | | | o 8MB memory above operating system | | | requirements | | | o 32MB free disk space (additional | | | 30MB required during enrollment) | | | o Hardware adapter cards: IBM | | | Personal Dictation Adapter for ISA | | | bus machines or Adapter/A for Micro | | | Channel machines | | | o Optional loudspeaker and | | | appropriate cables | | | o Microphone (shipped with the | | | software) | | | o Additional disk space for optional | | | industry-specific vocabularies: IBM | | | Personal Dictation Journalism | | | Vocabulary, 14MB; IBM Personal | | | Dictation Emergency Medicine | | | Vocabulary, 13MB: IBM Personal | | | Dictation Radiology Vocabulary, | | | 17MB | +------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS | o OS/2 Version 2.1 | | | o The IBM Personal Dictation System | | | is a prerequisite for the optional | | | IBM Personal Dictation Journalism | | | Vocabulary, the IBM Personal | | | Dictation Emergency Medicine | | | Vocabulary, and the IBM Personal | | | Dictation Radiology Vocabulary. | +------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ ((R)) IBM, Micro Channel, OS/2, Personal System/2, Presentation Manager, PS/2 and Workplace Shell are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. (TM) ValuePoint and WIN-OS/2 are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. ((C))International Business Machines Corporation 1994 IBM United States Department 507 1133 Westchester Avenue White Plains, NY 10604 Produced in the United States of America 5-94 All Rights Reserved References in this publication to IBM products or services do not imply that IBM intends to make them available outside the United States. G221-3915-01 / G2213915