11.   Most voice portals use speech recognition technology and a computer language that digitizes the spoken word and searches Internet servers based on the commands.

12.   Microsoft alone could change the rules by simply knitting speech technology into future versions of its ubiquitous Windows operating system.

13.   Microsoft Research now has a dozen separate research groups focusing on areas ranging from speech technology to computer vision and decision theory.

14.   Or it could work through speech technology into calling networks as something you would control with your voice.

15.   Originally they planned to license speech recognition technology from established companies and use it in their own products.

16.   Ricci said he planned to visit some of the largest former customers of Lernout, to convince them that the speech technology now sits in a solid company.

17.   Separately, BBN also announced this week a deal with International Business Machines Corp. to distribute speech recognition technology developed by its BBN Hark Systems subsidiary.

18.   Separately, BBN said Tuesday that IBM had signed a multiyear agreement to distribute speech recognition technology developed by its BBN Hark Systems subsidiary.

19.   Sometime next year, Voice Signal hopes to have a deal with a leading phone maker to include its speech recognition technology in the phone.

20.   Speech technology was out of the question because of the processing power it required.