When the world's leading speech and language technology vendor buys out the opposition, the resulting products ought to be good.
L&H's acquisition of Dragon Technologies earlier this year means they can now offer the most comprehensive range of voice-recognition solutions available.
Voice Xpress has been right at the top of my speech-recognition software list for the past three years and Version 5 is even better than earlier offerings.
A new enhancement is the L&H 'Umm and Aah' disfluency filter which removes those irritating speech anomalies.
Dragon Naturally Speaking offers a new set of voice commands to browse the web and manage e-mail navigation by voice. The most popular e-mail packages can now be controlled by voice commands.
Both Dragon Naturally Speaking and L&H Voice Express promise excellent recognition properties. Speech recognition is finally nearing acceptable levels of usability.
Price: Voice Xpress £199; Dragon Naturally Speaking £179
Contact: 01344 873445
Feelgood factor: both 8 out of 10
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