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From: ral@ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV (Roger Lighty)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: talk, beeps (was Re: (none))
Message-ID: <8912140049.AA18554@aristotle.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 14 Dec 89 00:49:00 GMT
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References: <1989Dec13.221405.3283@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
            <8912131434.AA19336@crdgw1.ge.com>
            <BOB.89Dec13142940@volitans.MorningStar.Com>

In in responing to article <BOB.89Dec13142940@volitans.MorningStar.Com> 
     bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writing:
>>    I generally keep my console window iconified and often fail to
>>    notice when someone wants to talk to me.  There are already too
>>    many applications that beep at me besides "talk".
>> 
>> Hmmm, perhaps we need an X protocol extension for stereo workstation
>> speakers? ...

Dave Gorgen / GTD-East (formerly Apollo Computer), Hewlett-Packard Company
answers:
 ...

> The people at the Media Lab (the descendant of the Architecture
> Machine Group) would probably tell you today that the "talk" icon
> should actually TALK to you, telling you to look at it.  This would
> mean we should be talking about a speech output extension to X.
>
> Have we gone far enough overboard yet?

Not quite!  Take a look at SERPENT.  (There will be a tutorial at the
X technical conference):

	TUTORIAL #7: The Serpent UIMS
	Len Bass, Erik Hardy, Rick Kazman, Dan Klein
	Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Serpent has the hooks for X and sound.

-- roger