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      database on the companion CD-ROM. You can use the database table to search for specific 
      vendors, products, and so on. </p>
    </blockquote>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</center></div>

<h2><a NAME="OtherOnlineResources"><b><font SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000">Other Online 
Resources</font></b></a></h2>

<p>The following is a list of SAPI-related topics that you can browse on CompuServe:</p>
<div align="center"><center>

<table BORDERCOLOR="#000000" BORDER="1" WIDTH="50%">
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="256"><i>Forum or Topic Name</i></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="256">WinCim Add-on - VOICE-MAIL</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="256">Disabilities Forum</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="256">IBM PSP A Product Forum</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="256">IBM VoiceType Forum</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="256">Windows Third-Party A Forum</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="256">Windows Third-Party App H Forum</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="256">Windows Extensions Forum</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</center></div>

<p>An extensive list of topics for The Microsoft Network can be found in the <tt><font
FACE="Courier">SAPIMSN</font></tt> folder on the CD-ROM. This contains a list of MSN 
shortcuts. If you are an MSN subscriber, you can click these icons to connect directly to 
the topic area on MSN. </p>

<h2><a NAME="SoftwareandHardwareResources"><b><font SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000">Software and 
Hardware Resources</font></b></a></h2>

<p>Table B.3 lists software and hardware vendors who are currently providing, or have 
pledged to provide, SAPI-compliant software and/or hardware products. A more complete list 
of vendors, including contact names, addresses, and phone numbers, can be found in the <tt><font
FACE="Courier">PRODUCTS</font></tt> table of the <tt><font FACE="Courier">CDGLISTS.MDB</font></tt> 
database on the companion CD-ROM. You can use the data table to perform searches for 
selected products or vendors. </p>

<p>In the table there are three types of entries: 

<ul>
  <li><i>SR</i>-Speech recognition products </li>
  <li><i>TTS</i>-Text-to-speech products </li>
  <li><i>API</i>-General SAPI products and contact names </li>
</ul>

<p align="center"><b>Table B.3. SAPI-related software and hardware.</b> </p>
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<table BORDERCOLOR="#000000" BORDER="1" WIDTH="80%">
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55"><i>Type</i></td>
    <td WIDTH="268"><i>Company</i> </td>
    <td WIDTH="268"><i>Products</i></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">smARTspeakr for Windows-a compact speech-recognition engine suitable for 
    command and control applications. Typical applications will be navigation of menus, phone 
    and/or fax dialing, educational software, interactive games, and multimedia titles. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">AT&amp;T</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">WATSON-Advanced Speech Applications Platform-Available for Beta release in 
    4Q95, WATSON incorporates AT&amp;T- patented BLASR Speech Recognition and FlexTalk Speech 
    Synthesis technologies in a software product running under Microsoft Windows 95. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Cambridge Group Research, Ltd. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Cambridge Voice for Windows. The Cambridge Voice for Windows 
    speech-recognition engine supports true speaker-independent recognition of continuous 
    speech in real time. The engine does not require any speaker training. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">IBM Corporation</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Source for IBM VoiceType technology information. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Kurzweil VOICE for Windows Release 1.5 is the latest version of Kurzweil 
    AI's award-winning voice-recognition system for Microsoft Windows. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Lernout &amp; Hauspie Speech Products </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">ASR SDK for the L&amp;H.asr1000M (computer/multimedia) and the 
    L&amp;H.1000T (telephony/telecommunications). L&amp;H SDK for Automatic Speech Recognition 
    is a speaker-independent recognizer that recognizes natural and fluently spoken words. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">PureSpeech, Inc.</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">PureSpeech 2.2 Recognizer. The PureSpeech engine permits 
    speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition. No user training is required. Both 
    microphones and recognition over telephone lines are supported. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Speech Systems, Inc.</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">VoiceMatch System Development Kit (SDK) SpeechWizard. The VoiceMatch SDK 
    is a suite of development tools for creating speech-aware applications in Microsoft 
    Windows. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Verbex Voice Systems, Inc. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">VISE, FlexVISE. The Verbex Integrated Speech Engine (VISE) is a 
    high-performance, speaker-independent, speaker-trainable, continuous speech- recognition 
    engine widely used in industrial, home, and office environments. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Voice Control Systems, Inc. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">SR</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Voice Processing Corporation </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">TTS</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">AT&amp;T</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">WATSON-Advanced Speech Applications Platform. Available for Beta release 
    in 4Q95, WATSON incorporates AT&amp;T-patented BLASR speech recognition and FlexTalk 
    speech synthesis technologies in a software product running under Microsoft Windows 95 </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">TTS</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Berkeley Speech Technologies, Inc. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">BeSTspeech T-T-S is text-to-speech conversion software. It creates 
    computer-synthesized speech output in a wide variety of languages. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">TTS</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Cambridge Group Research, Ltd. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">The Cambridge Voice for Windows text-to-speech engine provides synthetic 
    speech with realistic, natural intonation. The engine uses linguistic rules and sentence 
    analysis. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">TTS</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Centigram Communications Corporation </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">TruVoicer Text-to-Speech Converter is a premium-quality text-to-speech 
    product that converts any written text into natural-sounding, intelligible, spoken 
    American English, German, Spanish, Italian, or French. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">TTS</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Digital Equipment Corporation </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">DECtalk SDK for Windows 95. The DECtalk text-to-speech engine for 
    Microsoft<font SIZE="1">&reg;</font> Windows 95 provides highly intelligible, 
    natural-sounding, synthesized speech from freeform text input. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">TTS</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">FirstByte</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">ProVoice Developers Kit for WIN 32. FirstByte, the OEM sales leader in 
    text-to-speech software, offers development kits for the Microsoft Win32 Application 
    Programming Interface (API), Microsoft Windows 3.1, Macintosh, OS/2, and embedded systems. 
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">TTS</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Lernout &amp; Hauspie Speech Products </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">TTS SDK for telephony and desktop applications. L&amp;H Text-To-Speech SDK 
    is a multiple-language software- development package that converts any computer-readable 
    text into natural-sounding synthetic speech. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">TTS</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">SoftVoice, Inc.</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">SoftVoice, the developers of Apple Computer's original MacinTalk speech 
    synthesizer and the Amiga's Narrator device, has developed a Windows version of its 
    state-of-the-art, multilingual system. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">TTS</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Telefonica I+D</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Spanish TTS engine for Windows 95. The Telefonica I+D text-to-speech 
    engine for Windows 95 produces Spanish synthetic speech from unrestricted text. The 
    synthetic output is of very high quality: highly intelligible and very natural. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">TTS</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Telia Promotor AB</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Infovox 230-State-of-the-art text-to-speech conversion software for 
    Microsoft Windows 95. Available for British English, American English, German, French, 
    Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic. </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">AT&amp;T Microelectronics </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Berkeley Speech Technologies, Inc. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Centigram Communications Corporation </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Creative Technology Ltd. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Digital Equipment Corporation </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Dragon Systems, Inc.</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Eloquent Technology, Inc. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">First Byte</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">&nbsp; </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Kolvox Communications</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Lernout &amp; Hauspie Speech Products </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Scott Instruments Corporation </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Speech Systems, Inc.</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">S Systems, Inc.</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">&nbsp; </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Telia Promotor Infovox AB </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Verbex Voice Systems</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="55">API</td>
    <td WIDTH="268">Voice Processing Corporation </td>
    <td WIDTH="268">　</td>
  </tr>
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