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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:	The Digital way of working

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONELON

Created:	Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5321
Total number of notes:	139771

4240.0. "OCR, text-to-speech, India Stock Exchange" by STOHUB::SLBLUZ::BROCKUS (Who is John Galt?) Wed Nov 01 1995 16:10

Who should handle this?  I'm not in sales, and don't know whose
responsibility this is.

Here's a summary of the phone call I just received.  I have verified nothing.

Amar Badri of the National Stock Exchange of India, who is in St. Louis
for the next 10 days only, called Digital Equipment Corporation at our
local office, looking for software.  The switchboard routed the call
to me, for no apparent reason.

He wanted to talk to someone about scanning documents and converting them
to text.  Later in the conversation, he mentioned converting them to
speech.  He only mentioned software, although there are obviously special
hardware pieces to a solution like this.

I told him I'd try to find someone to help him, and also directed him to
call 1-800-DIGITAL.

If this is your area, or you know whose it is, please see that someone
contacts him.

He is:

Amar Badri
Home: (314)878-6420
Work: (314)344-2793

Address:

12218E Spanish Trace Drive
Maryland Heights, MO
		    63043

I am:

John Brockus
St. Louis SI
DTN 445-6544

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4240.1	1/2 a solution is better than none	MPOS01::BJAMES	I feel the need, the need for SPEED	`Wed Nov 01 1995 16:36`	6
	My VAR, National Computer Systems, makes a fairly robust scanner and retrieval system if that is what they are looking for. They can reached at 612-829-3000 or http://ncslink.com on the www. Good luck Mav
4240.2	DEC Image Express, contact Omtool	RTFM1::OSTMAN	For a few dollars more...	`Thu Nov 02 1995 02:37`	9
	They could also contact Omtool (http://www.omtool.com) Omtool now owns the "DEC Image Express" software that has OCR capability. Digital also have/had? a "DECtalk in software", I seem to remember some information about Digital also licensing the software to some other company. /Kjell
4240.3	Ron Gemma; Anne Nelson	MROA::DCAMPBELL		`Thu Nov 02 1995 08:11`	8
	For DECtalk information, contact Ron Gemma (DECTLK::GEMMA) or Anne Nelson (DECTLK::NELSON. They are the product management folks for DECtalk. I don't think they monitor this conference. I will extract the base note and give them a copy. Diana Campbell
4240.4	DECtalk in SoundBlaster, I think	NEWVAX::PAVLICEK	Zot, the Ethical Hacker	`Thu Nov 02 1995 12:20`	12
	re: .2 DECtalk licensed to some other company. I believe that may be Creative Labs, makers of the SoundBlaster products. I believe that the DECtalk technology is used on some of their mid-to-high-end products. This is from memory, so don't take it as Gospel. I think the IBMPC-95 conference has some reference to this (look in the SoundBlaster note). -- Russ
4240.5	Creative Labs AWE32 TextAssist = DECtalk technology	BBPBV1::WALLACE	UNIX is digital. Use Digital UNIX.	`Thu Nov 02 1995 13:03`	8
	I believe the TextAssist in the Creative Labs AWE32, and maybe elsewhere, is licensed DECtalk technology. You can have DECtalk as a card for a PC, a box on a serial line, a piece of software for NT with a sound card, or as a technology license. Take your pick. Creative chose technology licensing. There's a demo of the NT software on "Digital's Roadmap for Windows NT" CD, EC-N4235-69, available free via VTX LOS.