new delhi in an exclusive deal two of indias biggest names in the technologyspace hcl and indiatimes have reached an understanding to promote the latest voice recognition technology in india the alliance will publicise the advanced dragon naturallyspeaking speech recognition software being marketed by hcl infosystems ltd in south east asia read this story in hindi speaking on the initiative vivek seigell head dragon products asia pacific said it is a high technology product to be used by technocrats as they will be the early adopters indiatimes allows us to reach out to them even internationally where hcl represents this product line dragon naturallyspeaking is a large vocabulary continuous speech with indianised accent and generalpurpose speech recognition software simply put it allows a user to reply mails and write reports through speech instead of using the keyboard the systems can be used for chats letters and faxes a user can even navigate the internet and even the desktop menu bar by voice the software allows reliable voice commands that start programs and run prerecorded keyboard and mouse macros better still naturallyspeaking is the continuous speech recognition engines allowing more natural dictation than the previous generation of wordbyword dictation or discrete speech products if required a user can even play back what she said in her own voice or otherwise make the computer read email and other documents aloud in terms of accuracy lab tests have shown naturallyspeaking offering a better overall word selection based on context this not only produced better accuracy but also resulted in automatic capitalisation and punctuation saving time when it came to revising and correcting dictationsthe designers of naturallyspeaking claim that it has a 95 per cent accuracy rate while speaking at a normal pace up to 160 words per minute they also claim that it can learn multiple dialects accents and individual pronunciations quickly and automatically and it requires about 5 minutes of reading to train the software everyone has always wanted such an application says mahendra swarup ceo times internet ltd but the quality of the text to speech never really supported such rigorous use this new product aims at correcting that by offering the most natural sounding humancomputer interaction