L&H Voice Xpress Professional™, introduced in September of this year, is L&H's next generation continuous speech dictation software product, designed for business professionals who use Microsoft Office®. L&H Voice Xpress Professional™, with its Natural Language Technology (NLT) capability, gives users a high level of flexibility and functionality. NLT is a suite of sophisticated processes that allow speech-enabled products to interpret natural speech. It significantly improves flexibility and ease of use by letting users employ conversational speech to navigate in and between applications and execute formatting and editing functions. With L&H Voice Xpress Professional, users can issue intuitive commands like "insert a four by five table," "average this row," or "start the slide show." In addition to allowing dictation to and control of Windows®-based applications, the product tightly integrates L&H's natural language technology (NLT) with Microsoft Word 97 or Windows 95, Excel 97, PowerPoint 97 and Outlook 98.

L&H Voice Xpress Professional™ enables dictation to virtually any Windows-based application and lets users employ speech to control applications with flexible voice commands. It gives users the ability to create, edit and format documents, presentations, spreadsheets and e-mail using continuous speech and flexible, natural voice commands. The estimated price of L&H Voice Xpress Professional is $149.99.

"L&H Voice Xpress Professional™ has been judged best in its class by our tough panel of editors, uncompromising technology experts," said PC Computing editor Wendy Taylor. "L&H Voice Xpress Professional™ is the speech recognition product of choice for business technology buyers because it gives business professionals a strategic, competitive advantage in the workplace."

"L&H always strives to lead the market with best-of-breed products, like L&H Voice Xpress Professional™, that are easy to use, help simplify tasks and increase productivity," said Gaston Bastiaens, president and CEO of L&H. "Receipt of these awards validates our product's technological superiority and overall value. Further, the fact that a speech recognition product was selected for the Breakthrough Award signals the market's growing acceptance of speech as an invaluable tool for machine-human interaction."

"With these awards PC Computing underscores our belief that L&H Voice Xpress Professional and its NLT represent a breakthrough in innovation and demonstrate 'how we will all work in the years ahead," said David Milinazzo, Director of PC Application Development at L&H. "NLT makes speech technology more flexible, easier to use and more productive by allowing users to employ conversational speech. As such, it is truly a technological breakthrough."

L&H Family of Dictation Products

The L&H Voice Xpress family of products, including L&H Voice Xpress Professional, L&H Voice Xpress Advanced™ and L&H Voice Xpress Standard™, among others, enable users to dictate to Windows-based applications using continuous, natural speech. The products all offer command and control of virtually any Windows-based application with flexible NLT voice commands. Each product is tailored to specific markets and offers comprehensive editing and formatting capabilities in specific applications. In addition to L&H's retail dictation products, the company provides continuous speech products for the medical and legal field, and anticipates product introductions for other professional markets, such as law enforcement and insurance.

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