e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

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While SAPI 5.1 will bring speech capabilities within reach of many more developers, applications and users, Microsoft isn’t stopping there. Thompson says his unit is already looking at ways to speech-enable the Web."Web users, particularly mobile users, have a compelling need for speech capability," says Thompson. "They typically use small devices -- Web-enabled phones, handheld PCs and other small, interactive devices -- that have small screens and keyboards, if they have screens and keyboards at all. Being able to speak commands to such devices and have information displayed on the screen or spoken back to the user will be very cool. That’s where the action will be."And that’s where Microsoft’s speech group will be, too.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/aug01/08-21sapi.asp


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And Along Comes This -
Word Mark MXP
Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: computer software for managing and storing digital music files and enabling the music files to be downloaded to a portable digital music player
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 76306604
Filing Date August 29, 2001
Filed ITU FILED AS ITU
Owner (APPLICANT) e.Digital Corporation


Microsoft Goes Mental; Develops Windows MXP - hmmmmm
April 1st, 2001
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=789586

Note implications of direct VR into MXP music interactivity.


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Now look- A Microsoft ActiveX version for Voice Navigation.
http://www.interactivespeech.com/EN/activex.htm

What are the modifications I should do on my web site in order to update it and adapt it to the new ActiveX version?

It is very simple to update your site. First of all, note that you DO NOT NEED to record your voice commands again or modify your IAS files in any way. You just need to add, in the header of each vocal HTML page, an OBJECT tag (needed for Internet Explorer) and to add a little script before the existing EMBED tag (this tag is kept for Netscape).

Here are the modifications you need to do:

1. Insert this OBJECT tag before the </HEAD> tag of your HTML page (don't modify the numbers).
<OBJECT ID=,"VoiceNav" CLASSID="CLSID:4CD9F50C-280D-11D5-9690-0050BAE15BF6" height="0" width="0">
</OBJECT>

2. If this is your homepage, insert in this tag the parameter codebase as indicated below, so that Internet Explorer offers to install Voice Navigation.
<OBJECT ID="VoiceNav" CLASSID="CLSID:4CD9F50C-280D-11D5-9690-0050BAE15BF6"
codebase="http://www.interactivespeech.com/cab/voicenav_fr.cab?#Version=1,5,0,0" height="0" width="0">
</OBJECT>

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SAPI 5.1 also makes it easier for "engine vendors" -- the people who create the underlying software code that translates between spoken words and text -- to offer software engines that can work <B>with many speech-enabled applications,</B> without having to re-write the engine code to support each one. Similarly, application vendors gain the flexibility to link their software to any compatible engine.

http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=EDIG&read=789587

Application developers supporting SAPI 5.1 include Alexis Communications, Chant, Datria, EverSpeech, InSync, Ivoice, O&A, Realize Software, Speech Studio, Tangis, VoiceGenie, Wizzard, and Words+. Engine vendors supporting the technology include Agenda, ART, Babel Technologies, Fonix, Fujitsu, Lernout & Hauspie, Mindmaker, NEC, Rhetorical Systems, and Speechworks.


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