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IBM launches Via Voice in Indian English version

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BANGALORE, August 24: IBM

Software Group has launched the Indian English version of Via Voice for

the OEM market. IBM's Via Voice has been developed to suit the Indian

English accent with the help of Speech and Software (India), a Tata

company.

In order to make the software recognize Indian accent, an Indian

acoustic model was built which contains frequently used Indian words. The

software was developed using 40,000 sentences spoken by geographically

distributed native Indian speakers. The starter gets vocabulary that

consists of 62,000 words occurring frequently in the 16 million sentences

collected from various Indian publications, thereby ensuring the presence

of commonly used Indian nouns and vocabulary.

The words can be segregated to base vocabulary, personal vocabulary and

active or selected topics. Via Voice works by looking for the words in all

the three vocabulary data banks and if it does not find it there, then it

looks it up in the backup vocabulary and adds it to the personal

vocabulary. It also lets one select topics-mini-vocabularies that can be

turned on and off while dictating. IBM Software Group is targeting to sell

this product through PC manufacturers, peripheral distributors, large

publishers and OEM distributors across the country by bundling it with

their offerings.

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