COMPUTER products distributor Workgroup Solutions has released in Hong Kong Dragon Dictate for Windows, a speech-recognition program made by the US company Dragon Systems.
Dragon Dictate lets users control Microsoft Windows with speech, and dictate text into applications.
The program is being aimed at professionals such as lawyers, who dictate legal data, doctors who enter patient's records into databases, or business people who find typing difficult.
It is also being aimed at handicapped or disabled peopl to help them operate a computer through speech.
'Our target market at first was general users, but our first vertical push was towards lawyers and doctors,' said Andre Meyer, director of Workgroup Solutions.
'In the future we hope to widen our horizon of users. For instance at present in Australia and the US the system is greatly used by professionals like journalists, lawyers, and doctors.