Worldwide US English Fran ais Deutsch Italiano Japanese Espa ol UK English Chinese Portugu s BR Arabic IBM on Wednesday announced an update to its speech recognition software, ViaVoice Millennium, which offers improved voice controlled Web navigation. Essentially, Millennium adjusts to a user's speech pattern. As a result, verbally navigating between applications on the desktop, sending and receiving e-mail, scheduling appointments, and creating documents becomes easier and more accurate with time. Also new are added instructional wizards that show users how to set and adjust the audio on the microphone.
Some users view voice as playing a complementary role to a PC's other peripherals.
ViaVoice Web lets Web surfers communicate with Netscape Communications Corp., Microsoft Corp. and America Online Inc. browsers. ViaVoice Pro combines these features and lets users dictate into Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel and Outlook. Microsoft, Outlook, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. Intel, Pentium, MMX are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. AMD and Athlon are registered trademarks of AMD in the Unties states, other countries, or both.