Web Browsers
An Upcoming Version of Opera will Include IBM’s ViaVoice Technology
No need to type your search, just say it. From the announcement, “Opera Software announced the upcoming release of a multimodal desktop browser that incorporates IBM’s Embedded ViaVoice speech technology. By leveraging IBM’s voice libraries in this version of Opera, users can navigate, request information and even fill in Web forms using speech and other forms of input in the same interaction. ‘Voice is the most natural and effective way we communicate. In the years to come it will greatly facilitate how we interact with technology,’ says Christen Krogh, VP Engineering, Opera Software ASA. ‘By making this technology available today for the wider Web audience, the serious work of voice-enabling the Web can commence.’…Opera will make the IBM integrated voice browser available in English for Windows with initial targets being enterprise customers and developers”

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