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2007

KLAS Recognizes Six Distinct Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions' Products Within 2007 Year-End Top 20 Best in KLAS Report
Avon News, December 19, 2007
In addition to its two #1 rankings in front-end speech recognition, Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions is proud to have achieved status within the top three solutions ranked for the following additional categories:.....

The FBI Picks Speech Recognition Software from Nuance
TMCnet, November 14, 2007
The solution will enable them to quickly and accurately create comprehensive reports, interviews and other documents by voice, which will is expected to increase productivity by three times over manual typing.

Touchless Keyboard for the Disabled
Switched, October 23, 2007
Using a head-mounted sensor, the keyboard, which hangs over the top of your screen, picks up your noggin's movements and transmits the data to the computer as text. The system can also simply be used as a mouse to navigate your computer's windows and documents.

PACSHealth to Install System at Atlantic Health
EWorld Wire, October 29, 2007
Systems like PACS, radiology information system (RIS) and voice recognition have become invaluable tools that allow us to quickly transmit and share vital information in order to provide high-quality care to patients throughout our two major hospitals and several other facilities, said Linda Reed, vice president, information systems/chief information officer for Atlantic Health. Using PACSHealth, we will be able to more easily monitor these complex systems throughout that network and continue to offer that level of service to our patients.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical Drives Electronic Medical Record Adoption and Delivers Strong ROI
Ad Hoc News, September 18, 2007
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 has proven to be a powerful conduit for physicians by overcoming the EMR?s reliance on keyboard data entry, a leading hurdle for doctors and other care providers who are accustomed to report creation through traditional dictation, transcription or hand writing.

Dictation Playback App Ported to Linux
Linux Electrons, August 12, 2007
NCH Swift Sound Software has released its free dictation playback application for Linux, Express Scribe. This is a native port to GTK of their Windows version. According to their download page, some esoteric proprietary formats cannot be supported with the native port.

New speech-recognition software helps those unable to type
AZ Central, July 19, 2007
Gene Comstock is legally blind. In the past, he had a hard time using his computer to organize events for the Engineers' Club of the West Valley, but thanks to new speech-recognition software, Comstock now can draft e-mails, track attendance and double-check programs with ease.

VIDEO from Medialink and Nuance Communications: The Tenth Anniversary of the World's Most Popular Speech Recognition Software
Finanz Nachrichten, June 22, 2007
Dragon Naturally Speaking has come a long way in the ten years it has been on the market. Today, millions use Dragon to talk to their computers.

The ideal cellphone interface for surfing the web: your voice
New Zealand PC World, May 17, 2007
As someone who hates trying to surf the web via a tiny cellphone keypad, or even txting, I quite like the cut of VoiceSignal's gib, at least on paper. Nuance, which numbers Vodafone, Nokia, Motorola and BlackBerry maker RIM among its customers, says VoiceSignal will help it expand products in the following four areas......

Keyboards ain't what they used to be
The Economic Times, April 2, 2007
What would you rather prefer to do? Type on a swanky bluetooth enabled wireless keyboard with the latest Logitech diNovo Edge or would you rather give voice commands to your computer with the latest Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking software. Make your choice. We like both and bring you insights on both.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking -- A Life Saver for the "Typing Challenged"
CFP, March 18, 2007
Voice recognition has come a long way in recent years. What was once no more than an interesting curiosity with plenty of potential but little practical impact has grown into a technology that really can help those who can't/won't/don't type and is now appearing in devices far beyond the PC.

Gadgets Galore at Wireless Conference
Cay Compass, February 15, 2007
From a cell phone with just six brightly colored buttons to one that lets users dictate text messages to a handset that delivers the results of a breathalyzer test, manufacturers put their most eye–catching gadgets on display at this week’s wireless industry conference.

Doctors, nurses warming up to digital devices
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, January 29, 2007
You train the speech engine to recognize your voice, and when you speak into the engine, the program will type the words for you," he said. "You can ask the program to bold or underline a word, and you can ask it to call up information on standard procedures or surgeries to input into your patient's chart."

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