ABOUT THE
COMPANY
Dragon
Systems, Leading the Industry
The Natural Speech Company™
Dragon
Systems, Inc., is a leading worldwide supplier of speech and
language technology, including award-winning speech recognition
software. Dragon's goal is to "humanize" the interface
between people and machines by expanding the use of speech -- the
most natural and efficient way for people to communicate. Speech
capabilities available from Dragon Systems include continuous and
discrete dictation systems, voice command systems, text-to-speech
systems, customized telephony solutions, and developer tools which
enable users to speech-enable applications and build interactive
dialogues or custom vocabularies.
Throughout its history, Dragon has consistently been first and
foremost in introducing major new speech products. In April 1997,
Dragon Systems unveiled the world's first general purpose large
vocabulary continuous speech recognition product, Dragon
NaturallySpeaking™. Widely acclaimed by reviewers and analysts as
a revolutionary industry breakthrough, this software allows speakers
to create any text immediately by speaking at a natural
conversational pace. Since its introduction in 1997, Dragon
NaturallySpeaking™ claimed more major industry awards than any
other software product.
An Industry Leader
Founded in 1982 by speech industry pioneers Drs. Jim and Janet
Baker, Dragon Systems is well known for its long history of
innovations and its large patent portfolio. Privately-held and
headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, the company employs over 325
people across the globe, and has one of the largest speech research
organizations of any company in the world. 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 also has a subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan.
Some of the breakthroughs introduced by Dragon Systems include:
- The world's first large vocabulary general purpose continuous
speech recognition dictation system for PCs, in 1997;
- The world's first commercially available
"software-only" dictation system that supports
virtually any Windows application, in 1993;
- The world's first commercially available large vocabulary
general purpose dictation system for PCs, in 1990;
- The first speech recognition capability for a portable PC, in
1984.
Dragon Systems offers speech products for the following
platforms: MS-DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, DSP,
and telephony platforms. Products are available in several
languages: Japanese, American English, World English, French, Dutch,
German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish.
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