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Title: Can It Sing And Dance, Too?

Author: Malykhina, Elena Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Information Week, n1072 p64(2) Publication Date: Jan 16, 2006
  ISSN: 8750-6874
  Illustrations: Screen Layouts
URL of Publication: http://www.informationweek.com

Speech and handwriting recognition should help make personal digital assistants (PDAs) easier to use. The small size of most PDAs does make then a challenge to use. IBM has created Websphere Everyplace Multimodal Environment, a speech-recognition environment. Using this software, a user can request all the email from a certain person, or use it to search the Web for a specific piece of information. Additionally, once the requested information is found, the PDA will read back the requested information. PDAs with this capability will certainly be a help to those who use their PDAs while driving. The software is available for download to IT departments wanting to make voice-recognition and text-to-speech tools. IBS says that no voice training is needed for the speech-reconviction software. It is known that it does not work well when there is a lot of background noise. Typing is another difficulty for PDA users. PhatWare Corporation's Calligrapher turns screens into writing tablets, and notes turned into text. Similar software is available from FranklinCovey, Paragon Software and Zi. Sometimes this type of software has a hard time reading everyone's penmanship. And writing on a small screen takes some getting used to.

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