Dragon Naturally Speaking Wins BYTE Magazine's Best of COMDEX/Spring'97Award


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Atlanta, Georgia, June 4, 1997. Dragon Systems, Inc. Dragon Naturally Speaking, a revolutionary continuous speech recognition dictation product (Newton, MA, http://www.naturallyspeaking.com/), won Byte Magazine's Best of Show award. The award recognizes new products that are innovative and will have impact on the industry.

The ceremony part of the COMDEX/Spring'97 awards, is co-sponsored by SOFTBANK. The winner of the Best Technology award was the Iridium network by Iridium LLC(Washington DC, 202-408-3800, http://www.iridium.coni). With nine satellites in orbit, 12 more slated to launch this month, and even more to follow after that, Iridium is a major step forward in creating truly global wireless communications.

Finalists in the Technology category were Microsoft’s (Redmond, WA, 206-882-8080,
http://WWW.microsoft.com) "Wolfpack" fail-over clustering that will soon be part of the NT
operating system and Harris Semiconductor’s FingerLoc System (Melbourne, FL, 800-442-7747, http://www.semi.harris.com/fingerloc), a complete personal fingerprint identification system in a low-cost integrated circuit chip set.

In addition to winning Best of Show, Dragon’s Naturally Speaking was the winner of Best
Applications and Utilities Software. The finalists were Anysoft's Any 97, a user component
management system designed to provide true interoperability on the desktop (Cambridge, MA,
http://www.anysoft.com), and Intra Soft's Key Vision (Chapel Hill, NC, 919-419-9427,
http://www.keyvision-com), which is a program that lets network administrators manage multiple Win 95 and NT systems from a Web interface.

Best Portable winner was Gateway's Solo 9100 (N. Sioux City, SD, 800-846-2000,
http:/www.gw2k.corn), a high-end, 8.5 pound notebook packed with just about everything you
would need all for about $4200. Finalists were Toshiba's 3.8-pound Portege 300CT (about $3499), which has a 133-MHz Pentium with MNM CPU and a 1024 by 600 resolution display, and Toshiba's Satellite 44OCDX (Irvine, CA, 800-4577777, http://www.computers.toshiba.com), a 133-MHz MMX notebook with the first implementation of Toshiba's Fast Scan display technology for around $2,500.

Matrox Graphic's Millenium II (Quebec, Canada. 800-361-1408, http://www.matrox.com/mga) accelerator which provides 2D and 3D graphics and offers configurations up to 16MB won Best Multimedia Hardware. Finalists were ATI's Xpert@Play (Ontario, Canada, 905-882-2600, http://WWW.atitech.com), 2D and 3D graphics accelerator which is an add-in board that provides DVD acceleration as well as TV video out, and Xirlink's USB Digital Video Phone (San Jose, CA, 408-324-2100f, http://www.xirlink.com) that represents the first USB connected audio/video digital camera.

In the Multimedia Software category, the winner was MetaCreations Photo Soap (Carpinteria, CA, 805-566-6200, http://www.metacreations.com) brings high-quality photo editing to a new level of ease and affordability. Multimedia software were LogOn Technologies' e-Logic (Dallas, TX, 800-710-9099, http//www.logontech.com), a powerful Interactive Multimedia Marketing Application Suite that adds a new dimension to marketing on the web and MetaCreations’ Ray Studio 5 (Scotts Valley; CA, http://www.metacreations.com), an new animation tool.

The award for Best Connectivity Solutions went to Hilgraeve’s DropChute+ (Monroe, MI ,
313-243-0576, http://www.hilgraeve.com) which reliably transfers files over phone lines or the
Internet. Finalists were Bay Networks' Instant Internet 4-0 (San Antonio, TX, 800-8BAYNET, http:/www.baynetworks.com) which adds high-speed Internet connectivity options from 56K DDS to TI, and Equinox's SuperSerial Modem Pool PAC Option with EquiView Plus Rel 2 (Sunrise FL, 954-746-9000, http:/equinox.com) which is an Ethernet-ready NT Remote Access Sewer in a box plus software.

IBM's Intellistation M Series with its Pentium 11 CPU @g at 266MHZ (Somers, NY,
800-IBM-2968, http://www.pc.ibm.com/intellostation), won Best Workstation. Finalists were Digital Equipment Corporations' (DEC) Celebris GL-2, a Windows NT system that is a dual
processor-capable Pentium II-based computer and DEC's Personal Workstation 500a (Maynard, MA, 800-344-4865, http://www.workstation.digital-com).

Best Peripheral winner was Nikon's Coolpix 300 Personal imaging Assistant (Melville, NY,
516-547-4200, http://www.nikonusa.com) which offers powerful imaging and communication
capabilities in a pocket-size unit. Peripheral finalists were Visions.Corp's facet PC (Metuchen, NJ, 908-744-1585, http://www.faceit.com), a face-recognition software that used monitor-mounted cameras to identify a user's fare for computer access, and Visioneer’s Paperport Strobe Scanner (Fremont, CA, http://www.visioneer.corn), their updated scanner with color imaging capabilities.

Wall Data's Arpeggio Live! won the Best Web/Internet Product category, (Kirkland, WA,
800-915-9255, http://www.walldata.com) which is an ODBC compliant, HTML database and
publishing tool. Finalists were Cardiff Software TELEform (San Marcos, CA, 760-752-5244,
http://www.cardiffsw.com), an HTML forms creator, and TSP Companies' OpalisRendez Vous (Duluth, GA. 770-622-2840, http://www.opalis.com), a file synchronization add-on tool to Windows NT.
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