11.   The systems can turn text into speech and can understand spoken commands like those used to open files or read addresses, he said.

12.   Time Warner is already preparing a system that will allow viewers to call up different programs or services by giving spoken commands.

13.   To be sure, several carriers, including Sprint, already offer specialized handsets that understand spoken commands.

14.   With a spoken command, a person would have instant access to the invisible ether of information.

15.   Within two years, he said, computers that could understand spoken commands would be common, as would interactive digital television.

16.   Automakers, parts companies and electronics firms have been hurrying to add telematics based on cellular technology but controlled by spoken commands.

17.   Fiction has become fact - Japanese engineers have come up with a wristwatch phone which dials by spoken command.