Microsoft released a press statement in reference to the voice recognition programme in Office XP. The product includes advanced speech-recognition functionality in all Office programs, enabling people to enter and edit data, control menus and execute commands by speaking into a microphone. It will enable customers who suffer from repetitive stress injury and other related injuries to improve productivity by speaking to their PC.
Robert Hensing, a Microsoft product support specialist who suffers from repetitive stress injury (RSI, made the statement) in reference to how be believes using voice recognition instead of mouse and keyboard has helped alleviate his problem.
Details available at: MicrosoftPress
