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Until recently, attempts to develop speech interfaces to PCs had met with little success. Early products have had a presence for years--Newton's Dragon Systems has been around since the early 80s--but none of these products did a passable job, and were mostly used by disabled individuals...
...latest products to hit the market from IBM, Dragon Systems and Kurzweil all support continuous voice recognition, which means you can speak into the computer without pausing at a normal rate. You can't talk as fast as the guy from the Micro Machines commercial, of course, but a conversational pace is fine...
...predict that the island of Hong Kong will not be engulfed by China; it will expand into the mainland. The dragon will not devour what the unicorn left. J.K.P. ARIYARATNE University of Kelaniya Kelaniya, Sri Lanka...
DIED. LI SHUXIAN, 72, the last wife of China's last Emperor, Pu Yi, who abdicated from the Dragon Throne at age 6; of lung cancer; in Beijing. Li was a nurse at the hospital where Pu Yi received treatment while he was a prisoner of Mao's harsh "re-education" program. Of their marriage in 1962, Pu Yi wrote, "I and my bride...started our own little home, and this ordinary home was, to me, something extraordinary...
...mandates, but that's a risk they're willing to take to connect Hong Kong's 500,000 Internet users with the rest of the world. So, too, apparently are the producers of other controversial web sites, such as The Apple Daily, whose columnist and self-professed pimp "Fat Dragon" routinely ridicules Chinese politicians. Other web producers are lying low, fearful of the consequences. In January, Ming Pao Daily News reporter Xi Yang was released after spending nearly three years in prison for reporting on China's interest rate fluctuations, or "stealing state secrets" according to Beijing. Watching China build...