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ArticlesBattle of the Dictation APIs


March 1996 / News & Views / I'll Talk to You Soon / Battle of the Dictation APIs
Rob Dieterich

One way in which speech-recognition vendors hope to increase their penetration into the market is through speech APIs. "The true value of speech technology is realized when it's integrated with applications," says IBM's Neal Bernstein.

At present, two standards are competing. One is Microsoft's Speech API (SAPI); the other is Speec h Recognition API (SRAPI), spearheaded by Novell.

SRAPI will get its rollout with the release of WordPerfect 7.0 and Perfect Office 7.0, both of which will be SRAPI enabled. Leading voice-recognition system vendors, such as Dragon Systems (Newton, MA), IBM (Boca Raton, FL), and Kurzweil Appli ed Intelligence (Waltham, MA), worked on SRAPI.

SAPI, which went out to developers late in 1995, currently addresses command and control (but not yet dictation) in its high-level API. Company officials say they are not yet convinced of the dictation market's potential.


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