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Dragon NaturallySpeaking™ Receives 1999 PC World World Class AwardDragon Systems' Widely Acclaimed Software Captures This Prestigious Honor for the Second Year in a RowPress Contact:
NEWTON,
Mass. - June 21, 1999 - Dragon NaturallySpeaking received the 1999
PC World World Class Award as Best Voice Recognition software. This is
the second straight year that Dragon Systems has won this prestigious
honor. Dragon Systems also recently captured the Best of AVIOS award for
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile at the AVIOS conference in California.
The PC World World Class award brings the new total to over 90 awards
worldwide for the widely acclaimed Dragon NaturallySpeaking continuous
speech recognition software since it began shipping two years ago.
According to PC Data April 1999 reports, Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the
top selling retail speech recognition system in both revenues and number
of units sold. According to the reports, Dragon NaturallySpeaking has
held this leadership position for more than a year.
"We are humbled to receive the prestigious PC World World Class
Award for the second straight year," said Dragon Systems Vice
President of North American Marketing Roger Matus. "This award is
an exceptional validation of our focus on providing customers with
speech recognition software that meets their needs for accuracy and
easy-of-use."
Launched in 1983, the PC World World Class Awards are the Best
Products of 1999, as selected by PC World editors in hardware, software,
and Internet-related product categories. The award results will be
printed in the July 1999 issue of PC World and celebrated at a PC Expo
reception in New York City on June 23, 1999.
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# About
Dragon Systems, Inc.
Dragon Systems, Inc., is a worldwide leader in PC speech recognition.
Dragon Systems develops and markets high-performance, cost-effective
speech and language technology that, in multiple world languages
(including American English, British English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish and Swedish), enable users to create text, issue commands, enter
and access data simply by speaking. The company also licenses technology
worldwide through developers, distributors, resellers, OEMs (Original
Equipment Manufacturers) and ISVs (Integrated Software Vendors). Dragon
Systems ports its technology across multiple operating systems and
hardware platforms - from hand-held devices and PCs to workstations, and
is pursuing leading-edge research and development projects for computer
and telecommunications applications. Since introducing Dragon
NaturallySpeaking, the first large vocabulary continuous speech
recognition system able to create general purpose text, in 1997, the
Company has received over 80 major industry awards worldwide.
Founded in 1982, Dragon Systems has its headquarters in Newton,
Massachusetts. It has European subsidiaries in Munich, Paris and in
Marlow near London, and additional research laboratories in Cheltenham,
England (Dragon Systems GmbH, Dragon Systems SA, Dragon Systems UK Ltd,
and Dragon Systems UK Research & Development Ltd, respectively).
Dragon Systems and the Dragon Systems logo are registered trademarks;
NaturallySpeaking, NaturallyMobile, NaturallyClear, DragonTel, and The
Natural Speech Company are trademarks of Dragon Systems, Inc. All other
trademarks are of their respective holders.
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