All: Wanted you to be among the first to know: ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COMMANDSETS.COM RELEASES COMMANDS FOR MAC OS X's BUILT-IN SPEECH RECOGNITION New Orleans, LA, January 22, 2003 — Speech middleware vendor CommandSets.com announced today it has released ten command sets for the speech recognition system built into Mac OS X (also referred to as PlainTalk™). Combined the sets add almost 700 spoken commands to Mac OS X's vocabulary. The sets include PlainTalk versions of sets previously released for iListen and ViaVoice, including BBEdit, iCal, iPhoto, iTunes, Mail, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Messenger. New is a set containing over 40 commands for Apple's TextEdit program. TextEdit sets for iListen and ViaVoice were also released. The new Command Sets sell for between $7.50 and $25. For a limited time, CommandSets.com is giving away the full TextEdit command set for either iListen, PlainTalk, or ViaVoice to anyone as a way of building traffic on the site and getting people to take speech recognition on the Mac for a test drive. There is no obligation to purchase to receive the free command set. Visit http://www.commandsets.com for more details. (Product names are trademarks of their respective companies) For more information, please contact: Chuck Rogers chuck at commandsets.com (504) 628-3640 ###