Developer of the first CD-ROM to
introduce trainer-free Voice Recognition

As the developer of the interactive multimedia CD-ROM Star Trek tm Omnipedia tm, published by Simon & Schuster Interactive, Imergy® became the first multimedia production company to introduce voice recognition technology in a consumer CD-ROM. The disc is an encyclopedic text and video reference source of Star Trek tm lore, fact and history.

By engineering our own custom-built application so that anyone can speak a set of voice commands to control the Omnipedia's tm data base, Imergy's® team integrated Dragon Systems' VoiceTools into the CD-ROM for the Windows platform. Both Mac and Windows users can speak a set of about 100 commands that control the Omnipedia tm.

For the Macintosh, we scripted special commands that hook smoothly into Apple Computer's PlainTalk® speech technology. To make the program as fast as possible, we built a custom vocabulary of words and phrases specific to the Omnipedia tm. The result - Mac users can speak ANY visible hyperlink or index entry, which amounts to many thousands of phrases throughout the CD without the use of your keyboard or mouse.

6,000 indexed entries, when spoken, are recognized by the system. Bark, "Computer, hyperlink Picard," "Computer play video," or even "Denebian slime devil". Your computer might respond with "Accessing," or, "There is a related resource for this entry," after which you could ask, "Computer, show resource." You'll be psyched to hear your computer respond in the actual voice of Majel Barrett, the original voice used in all the Star Trek tm television series.