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...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...
Nestled on Albany St. at the edge of the square, a set of red brick buildings marks the beginning of the new Cambridge, a cluster of high-tech firms with names like BASF Bioresearch, Transkaryotic Therapies, and Kurzweil. But next door to the MIT plasma fusion center, at 240 Albany St., lies a complex of two trailers that seems oddly misplaced in this new industrial mecca...
...keep his handicap at a respectable 6. Besides the Long Beach home, Duclos and his wife Mollie own a vacation cottage near the famed Old Course at St. Andrews. Off the links, he relaxes by playing Beethoven and Mozart on a Kawai grand piano, accompanied by a $17,000 Kurzweil synthesizer that can replicate the sound of a symphony orchestra...
...doubts that the VoiceWriter will be a technical marvel, considering Kurzweil's past innovations. In 1974, four years out of M.I.T., he borrowed $150,000, set up his own company and developed the Kurzweil Reading Machine. Able to scan words on a printed page and then read them aloud in an artificial voice, the device has been hailed as the most significant aid for the blind since the invention of Braille. In 1983 he introduced the Kurzweil 250, a computer-driven musical synthesizer that can mimic the sounds of instruments and voices. Even more sophisticated than Robert Moog's famous...
...coincidence that Kurzweil applied his computer skills to making music. His father was a music professor who fled from Nazi Germany, came to the U.S. and married Kurzweil's mother, also a German refugee. Growing up in a working-class neighborhood in New York City, Kurzweil learned to play the keyboards of both pianos and computers and dreamed of becoming another Thomas Edison...