An article at "Network World Fusion" notes:
"Two leaders in speech recognition, IBM and Belgian
speech technology giant Lernout & Hauspie, have
each built speech-enabled prototypes of handheld
devices that could be commercially available as early
as next year.
"Both recently showed off palm-size devices that
perform speech-to-text transcriptions, have
voice-controlled personal digital assistants, and can
respond to questions with a computer-synthesized
voice."
The full article is at:
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2000/0706pdavoice.html
--Glenn