If true, it's a great accomplishment, but we have to wonder how such a thing could ever be managed. There surely is a need for a way to input Chinese. With over 6,000 characters, the sort of keyboard most of you are used to simply won't do. Office XP, which just went on sale, is said to incorporate the first speech-recognition product from Microsoft and is reportedly almost 20 years in the making. The Office XP speech feature, which Microsoft claims can recognize 60,000 words in Mandarin Chinese, also works with Japanese and English.
Characters appear on the screen as the user speaks into a microphone.
Microsoft says the program analyzes context of words and gets them right about 90 percent of the time. And we hope the Chinese don't plan to use this software to control their ballistic missle launches. . . This Article - Comment On This Article . We carry RAM for every Mac. Moving into a new G4 QuickSilver may be far easier than you think.