IBM launches speech recognition software

By Our Staff Reporter, Chennai, Aug 17: IBM Software Group today launched the Indian English version of Via Voice for the OEM market.

HCL Dragon only last week came out with a similar product. IBM's Via Voice has been developed to suit the Indian English accent with the help of Speech and Software Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd., a Tata company.

In order to make the software recognise Indian accented speech, an Indian acoustic model was built which contains frequently used Indian words, says a company release.


Source: THE HINDU, Wednesday, August 18, 1999 edition