ivos as its name (intelligent voice operating system) suggests is an intelligent agent which runs on your desktop and learns the way the computer is being operated by you. it has both speech recognition and text to speech unlike many other products and also comes at a very low price. new features are... 1.) create your own commands for any software you like. 2.) dictate your voice into any digital recorder or any mobile recording device, upload it into your computer as a .wav file. now you can use ivos to transfer this recorded file into text or commands. 4.) change the skin color of your ivos. 5.) right click on any command and record your voice for that particular command. 6.) get confirmation for any command you said and get voice messages when open or exit ivos. 7.) with the new "start recognition" and "stop recognition" commands, you can switch on or off ivos with your voice. including old features such as... 8.) control the menu and sub menu of any software on the windows operating system 9.) total voice automation of microsoft outlook 97-2000-xp 10.) total voice automation of the windows operating system 11.) open any file, folder or website with a single voice command 12.) dynamic voice control for searching files and folders 13.) play music, movies... with a single voice command 14.) get the text you say to be typed in any software with a text space in it 15.) get the text in any software to be read aloud 16.) dynamic voice control in handling the whole email system. microsoft sapi5.1 is a must. if not on windows xp, please download from http://www.ivos.biz/downloads/sapi5.1.zip