VoiceCode 1.0 README file

Last updated 15 October, 1996

Contents 

1. License agreement
1.1 Title and Conditions
1.2 Record of Use
1.3 Value of the Software
1.4 Warranty
2. Contact the developpers
3. What is VoiceCode?
4. What is included in this package?


1. License agreement

This software is provided by The National Research Council of Canada 
(called NRC) whose address for communications with respect to this 
software is: 

   Institute for Information Technology
   National Research Council Canada
   Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A 0R6
   Electronic mail: voicecode@ai.iit.nrc.ca


1.1 Title and Conditions

NRC provides a fully paid up and non-exclusive license to the software 
package with the following conditions: 

     1.The license does not include the right to sublicense the 
software, or to make it available for independent use by third parties 
outside the recipient organization. 

     2.Copies of the software may be made for use within the recipient 
organization, however, copyright remains with NRC. 

     3.All publications arising from the use of the software shall duly 
acknowledge such use in accordance with normal practices followed in 
scientific research publications. 

     4.The software is provided in its current state and NRC assumes no 
obligation to provide services, for example maintenance or updates. 

     5.All users are requested to provide their name, the name of their 
organization and a mailing or email address so that we may track the 
use of the software as well as provide information to users as updates 
and enhancements are made. 


1.2 Record of Use

Users are requested to inform NRC of any corrections, changes or 
extensions to the software. NRC would also appreciate being informed of 
noteworthy uses. 


1.3 Value of the Software

This software is considered to have no market value. 


1.4 Warranty

NRC disclaims any warranties, expressed, implied, or statutory, of any 
kind or nature with respect to the software, including without 
limitation any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose. NRC shall 
not be liable in any event for damages, whether direct or indirect, 
special or general, consequential or incidental, arising from the use 
of the software.


2.  Contact the developers

If you obtained VoiceCode from a source other than the NRC web site 
(http://ai.iit.nrc.ca), please send us your name, name of your 
organization and email address to the following address: voicecode@ai.iit.nrc.ca.

This is important so that we can:

     keep you informed of upgrades
     justify doing this to our management 

We are also interested in hearing feedback, suggestions and bug 
reports.


3. What is VoiceCode?

VoiceCode is an add-on software for the DragonDictate speech 
recognition system. It is designed to help programmers using 
DragonDictate to dictate source code. 

Basically, VoiceCode takes the hassle out of dictating special 
expressions like variable, function and file names which are normally 
not recognized by DragonDictate. It does this by compiling sentences 
for all special expressions contained in source files and directories. 
Provided that certain conditions are met, the sentence compiled for a 
special expression is easy to remember and is recognized by 
DragonDictate without requiring explicit training. Please see the user 
documentation (user.ps file) for more detail.

VoiceCode was developed by Alain Dsilets at the Institute for 
Information Technology of the National Research Council of Canada and 
can be downloaded free of charge from the following WWW site: 
http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/. 


4.  What is included in this package?

The VoiceCode package includes the following files and directories:

     readme.txt:	the file you are reading

     install.*:		installation guide in MS-Word (.doc), PostScript (.ps) 
                  	and "poorly formatted" ASCII (.txt) 

     user.*: 		user documentation in MS-Word (.doc), PostScript (.ps) 
			and "poorly formatted" ASCII format (.txt)

     VocComp: 	        directory containing the perl scripts for the VoiceCode
			vocabulary compiler, as well as Emacs-Lisp macros 
			allowing the vocabulary compiler to be invoked from 
			within that editor.

     DDMacro: 		Directory containing some DragonDictate macros allowing the 
			vocabulary compiler to be invoked through utterance of vocal 
			commands.
 

