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From: jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Narrator Improvements : A 1.5 wish.
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Date: 2 Nov 89 17:23:47 GMT
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In article ajbrouw@neabbs.UUCP (ALBERT-JAN BROUWER) writes:
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|If people sum up the advantages of owning an Amiga, sooner or later the
|built-in speech capability will be mentioned.  But be honest, you don't
|use your Amiga to recite documents, eventhough this would free your hands
|and eyes for other jobs, because the the thing is unintelligible too often.
|
| ...
|
|The DEVS: directory might then contain a subdirectory named, say, lingos,
|like keymaps) filled with translation tables for a selection of foreign
|languages, a super large English table for power users, improving the
|translation hit rate, and perhaps even a techie translation table built by
|processing news.amigatech messages!
|
| I'm rather fond of this idea, it seems in-line with the Amiga way of doing
|things.  It will take some effort to implement it though, so it sure won't
|make it into the 1.4 O.S.
|Reactions? Comments? Pro Votes?
|
|-Albert (hp4nl!neabbs!ajbrouw)
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Both this and your refinements to the non text handling sound very well
thought out.  I do remember that one of the improvements in 1.4 mentioned
in the Amazing Computing (INFO?) DevCon/1.4 Preview was greatly improved
speech handlers.

Count this as a positive vote.
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