From FranR@dragonsys.com Wed Feb 18 22:07 MET 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:03:07 -0500
From: Francoise Renaud <FranR@dragonsys.com>
To: scherer@ensmp.fr
Subject:  Copyrights

Hello,

My name is Fran#oise Renaud, and I work for a company called Dragon
Systems, which develop speech recognition software (Dragon Naturally
Speaking). Carole Netter told me to contact you to get the authorization to
use the text which I found on her web page "MEMOIRES D"UN LOGICIEL"
from an anonymous writer.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking software recognizes what a person says,
and prints the recognized words onto the screen or executes the
recognized command. For a person to be recognized, the person must
read a text (called enrollment text) for about 30 minutes, so that the
models adapt to his/her speech patterns. In the American software, text
from such authors as Dave Barry, Arthur Clarke, or Scott Adams have
been used. It is great publicity for them. For the French software, text
from Jules Verne has been used, and I was looking for additional text
when I found the story of "MEMOIRES D'UN LOGICIEL" published on
ClicNet web site. So far, inhouse people have enjoyed very much the
story, so I would like to use it in our product.

Of course, I could mention the conditions under which the text is used in
the first paragraph. The decision needs to be made very soon, so if you
could please let me know of your decision, I would greatly appreciate.

Thanks,
Fran#oise Renaud,
Product Manager, French Development Team
617-796-0462
franr@dragonsys.com