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January 25, 1999 Delphi Report Writers Continuous Voice Recognition Report generation, a requirement in most Delphi applications, has evolved from basic, tabular, hardcopy output to graphically rich, interactive, electronic formats accessible from local and wide area networks. This months meeting will provide an update on Delphi integrated report writers: QuickReports from QuSoft and ReportBuilder from Digital-Metaphors. Following the report writer presentations we will have a brief demonstration of FreeSpeech, a continuous voice recognition product just released from Philips. Natural speech recognition technology has evolved to the point, along with the cost of the required processing power, where application developers will increasingly be required to considered it as part of the user interface.ReportBuilder from Digital-Metaphors Manny Garcia, Fidelity Investments will demonstrate a slick reporting tool called ReportBuilder . Written entirely in Delphi, ReportBuilder integrates seamlessly into the Delphi IDE, allows unlimited extensibility and compiles into your .exe so you can distribute your reports royalty free. The interactive report designer and previewer give you total flexibility for developing your reports and seeing immediate results right from inside Delphi. ReportBuilder fully integrates with Delphi's Object Inspector and allows you to store reports in files or in database BLOB fields. This frees you from trapping reports inside your Delphi forms and allows you to reload them dynamically at run-time. At the end of the meeting, a full-version of ReportBuilder will be raffled off. QuickReports from QuSoft QuickReports is the set of report generation components included with Delphi, written in Delphi. Upgrading from the included, standard version to the QuickReport3 Professional version you receive, in addition to source code, additional components including end user report designer, additional export filters, and a comprehensive, automated mailing label component. A banded report generator, the QuickReport set of Delphi components provide a rich capability for generating output from a variety of sources to a variety of formats. FreeSpeech from Phillips FreeSpeech is a speech recognition program which combines Online Natural Speech Recognition for dictation of documents as well as voice commands which allow control over many popular applications. You can create, edit, and format documents by dictating directly into most Windows applications where you normally would type, and control the window's environment by speaking directly to your computer. FreeSpeech comes with a comprehensive, 27,000 word vocabulary (ConText) of common terms, phrases and names which is easily customized to a 64,000 word maximum. FreeSpeech adapts to your voice as well as to your dictation style and, with a built-in tuner, can analyze existing documents for words that you want to add to the vocabulary. The patented dictation playback with synchronous highlighting allows you to proof-read your text quickly and easily. Falsely recognized words can be replaced by choosing an alternative from a list, simply by using your voice. |
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