These products include their core product known as SpeechMagic®. SpeechMagic® offers a 64,000 word vocabulary and a full API. SpeechMagic includes an ISA compatible recognition accelerator as well as speech recognition software. SpeechMagic® runs under Windows®.

Their correction editor allows for 'simultaneous editing and playback of recordings' thus allowing for easy correction. The brilliance of this system is that is allows someone other than the person dictating to correct the errors. While their continuous speech recognition products are extremely accurate, having up to a 95% or better recognition, depending upon the context and speaker's experience with the system, there are no systems expected this century with 100% recognition accuracy. The ability to have a third person, such as a secretary or transcriptionist correct the material is a wonderful change from the requirement of most other voice activated software products which do not have this feature. Thus, with SpeechMagic®'s products, after the physician, attorney, or other high paid executive dictates the report into the computer, both a typed file and a sound file are forwarded to the secretary. The secretary's job is then merely to correct the occasional mis-recognition. There will be a few of these. On the other hand, there will not be any appreciable mis-spellings since if the word is correctly recognized it will be spelled correctly.

As are all current speech recognition systems, SpeechMagic® is speaker adaptive. It has good recognition immediately upon installation. However the recognition accuracy improves with usage. This occurs on two levels. First, the phonemes, or sounds produced by individual speakers vary. This is another way of saying that each of us has a certain accent. SpeechMagic® quickly learns your individual accent. The second level of adaptation relates to the frequency and usage of the individual words in your particular vocabulary. Each of us uses words with different frequencies and in different context. SpeechMagic® will learn these differences in time, and will be less likely to make the same errors concerning word choices after proper usage.

As do most of the currently available full featured systems, SpeechMagic® allows for the addition of user defined vocabulary words, abbreviations and macros.

SpeechMagic® currently allows for recognition of English and German.

It is compatible with Windows® 3.x and Windows® 95, and can be used in a standalone system or in a Novell network.

SpeechPro® is an 'Automatic Context Creation' tool which offers a 300,000 word background dictionary. SpeechPro® is utilized with SpeechMagic® for the creation of individual 'Contexts.' It offers an intuitive user interface making it useful even for those who do not have extensive computer programming and linguistic skills.

With SpeechPro® developers are able to input large quantities of data for an individual subject, such as Radiology or Bankruptcy Law. SpeechPro® then compiles this information to produce both a vocabulary list as well as a language model. It is this language model which enables the developed contexts to understand, from a probability standpoint, what is meant when the system hears to, two or too.

Context Developers for Philips Speech Processing's SpeechMagic®

Philips Speech Processing's SpeechMagic® is utilized by 7 different companies in the development of end-user products. These companies each market their individual 'Context(s)'.

Articulate Systems Inc. is developing products using the name PowerScribe®. They specialize in the healthcare industry. Their initial products are expected to be for Radiology, Primary Care and some hospital reports. It is expected that they will ship the first of these, Radiology, during the first quarter of 1997.

CMHC Systems, Inc., using the name Voice Input Technologies is producing a context for the mental health industry. It is designed for Psychiatrists and Psychologists and other mental health organizations. It is currently shipping.

Cortex Medical Management Systems currently produces a product known as The Gold Standard. It is designed to assist Pathologists with their work. They are currently voice-enabling The Gold Standard allowing Pathologists dictate their reports directly into a word processing file.

KorTeam International, Inc. is producing contexts for Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Gastroenterology and Neurology. They are starting with two basic packages; those for Internal Medicine and General Surgery, and will develop additional contexts building upon these basics. Their products should begin shipping in the first quarter of 1997. Complete stand-alone systems, including Pentium 200 processors with 4 gigabytes of memory should start at substantially under $20,000.

SpeechLaw Inc. obviously specializes in legal contexts. Rather than have a plain vanilla package, SpeechLaw is producing individual sub-specialties within the field of law. These areas of specialty include Real Property, Personal Injury, Commercial Law & Bankruptcy, Worker's Compensation, Criminal Law, Securities, Family Law and others. It is expected that these products will begin shipping in mid 1997.

US MicroShare, Inc. is producing contexts for the legal field in its product line known as TalkTime. The extensive database of LEXIS-NEXIS is being utilized to develop their vocabulary and language models. LEXIS-NEXIS will be accessible by voice using TalkTime. Initial ship dates are unclear at this point.

Vocalex, Inc. produces voice products for the medical industry. Amongst these are an Orthopedic Surgery context and an Emergency Medicine context. An add-on feature of the Orthopedic Surgery product is integration with the arthroscope in the performance of arthroscopic surgery. Thus, the user will be enabled to have pictures of the surgical procedure imported at the proper location in the report. The Emergency Medicine context is currently shipping. It is expected that the Orthopedic context, currently in beta, will begin shipping during the first quarter of 1997.

Philips Speech Processing is an independent operating company within the Philips Group of Philips Electronics N.V. of The Netherlands. Philips Electronics N.V. of The Netherlands employs more than 250,000 people worldwide.

SpeechMagic® and SpeechPro® are registered trademarks of Philips Speech Processing. PowerScribe® is a registered trademark of Articulate Systems. Windows® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.