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From: Mary.Otten@p0.f1055.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Mary Otten)
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Subject: Re: Genie
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Date: 19 Apr 91 20:19:20 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

There's quite a bit of activity related to speech programs on genie,
including a vocalize area, which, unfortunately has only my message with
lots of questions in it right now. The hot area there seems to be asap.
Maybe you could get on and start a dialog with Larry regarding
artificial intelligence vs configurations. Thje problem I have with
configs, and I use artic, a program that depends on them, is that before
you can set up the proper configuration, you have to become thoroughly,
and I mean thoruoghly versed in the operation of the speech program and
the application for which you are trying to write a configuration. Now,
that's a tall order, if the darned program is giving you fits in the
first place. So, I hope you're wriong wrong and the artificial
intelligence approach works, becaue I se no way out for the average guy
who isn't really smat smart when it comes to this stuff or who doesn't
have any sighted help. The only other alternative is for programmers to
put out quite a supply of custom configs, and if they do that, then
what's the difference between that and a.ai? After all, what you want in
a config may not be what I want. Not trying to be argumentative, but it
seems to thme that the a.i. approach, assuming it's viable, is the best
way for the average guy. It's the blind person's equivlent to the gui or
a mouse or something.

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