[MV] Re: PC Immulators for VV

[T. Patrick Henebry]

>If I am not mistaken, the first Continuous Speech Recognition 
>program for Macintosh was ViaVoice Millennium Edition, which was 
>released in 2000.

December 8th 1999, and yes it was the first.

>
>The first Speech Recognition program to do dictation on a Mac was 
>Power Secretary, which was discrete dictation. I believe it came out 
>in 1995 or 1996.

June of 1994.  I had one of the earliest copies (thanks to the 
company I worked for there is no way I could have afforded it myself 
at $2,495 a copy).  It was developed by Articulate Systems with help 
from Dragon Systems.  Later Dragon Systems brought the product 
completely in-house.
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T. Patrick Henebry