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From: kevin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Kevin Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Problems with the NeXT System (v1.0)
Summary: Ideas for Apps
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.162453.21091@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 90 16:24:53 GMT
References: <Qa110ba00VRhM0dF16@andrew.cmu.edu> <ROBERTL.90Mar19005309@bucsf.bu.edu>
Reply-To: kevin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Kevin Harris)
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In article <ROBERTL.90Mar19005309@bucsf.bu.edu> robertl@bucsf.bu.edu (Robert La Ferla) writes:
>Good suggestions.  Here's more concerning Digital Webster:
>
>FEATURE SUGGESTIONS
>
>1.	Add foreign language dictionaries/thesaurus for French, Spanish,
>Italian and German.  This would open up a whole new use for the NeXT.  Are
>you listening NeXT?
>
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>5.	Webster has pronounciations for every word.  How about a voice
>synthesis or digitized pronounciation for every word?

	Wow, what is you combined the above two ideas and made a "talking
textbook" for foreign languages? Might take up some room when you get into 
conversation, but it seems feasable.


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