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From: Dave.Tanner@p0.f210.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Tanner)
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Subject: Re: Artic 3.00
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Date: 25 Mar 91 22:08:54 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

In a message of <27 Jan 91 10:30:25>, Tom Gerhart (1:273/210) writes:

 > >Roy,
 >I have seen a number of problems with artic 3.0 they have released 3.1
 >and I think they are working on 3.2. I don't mind being a ginny pig as
 >most users are, but I called and asked about the problems and the tech
 >person told me that it worked fine with everything.  Why not be honest
 >about it tell me that there is a problem and that artic is working on
 >it. Also some dealers are still selling 2.2 and then making the person
 >pay another $10 to get 3.0. what a rip off. tom G.

From all the problems they have on their hands with 3.00 and the
amount of time they hyped it prior to even releasing it you would
wonder if their programmers are the same ones that did Opus 1.10.
They hyped Opus 1.10 for a couple of years and then when it was
released it had tons of bugs and no real documentation.  In the 10
months since it was released there have been 5 upgrade releases to
correct bugs and there are still problems.  I suppose that's
alright when the software is free, but with what Artic is charging
for upgrades and the "accidental" charging a user more for an
upgrade because their 2.2 version was sold to their dealer prior to
the deadline cutoff for less expensive upgrades, let's hope they
don't have 5 upgrades before they get it right or all the Artic
owners will be broke and Artic will be in excellent financial
condition at the expense of their users.

BTW, I understand that the Artic Dectalk version that was suppose
to release last summer is still 3 to 6 months from release
according to Artic dealers that I have been talking to in the last
couple of weeks.  Boy, it's a good thing all the speech companies
don't take that long to adapt their software to one more
synthesisor or we would really be in bad shape.

     D. T.

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