Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: For all you who want more advertizing Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 06:50:51 GMT References: <1990Oct24.030917.18454@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <693@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <545@cbmger.UUCP> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 23 [All typos are due to a definite lack of sleep. I've been awake since 7:30AM and it's 1:45AM now] Is it that the narrator.device needs to have more phonemes, or is it that the translator.library needs to have a better translation system? I consulted the campus linguistics guru this morning. (Dr. Roger Wescott) and he said that all languages that a human can speak can be represented in I.P.x. (International Phonetics X, where X = something that I'm too tired to recall right now). So, it is possible to have a narrator.device with "enough" phonemes for a truly international Amiga. So, it comes down to "would the $$$ invested result in comparable profits?" I think the answer is "no" considering that so few programs use it. It's chicken and egg (which is a shame... but welcome to reality). -Tom -- tlimonce@drew.edu Tom Limoncelli "Flash! Flash! I love you! tlimonce@drew.bitnet +1 201 408 5389 ...but we only have fourteen tlimonce@drew.uucp limonce@pilot.njin.net hours to save the earth!"