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From: Mary.Otten@p0.f1055.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Mary Otten)
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Subject: decktalk
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Date: 24 Apr 91 22:45:57 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

In a message to JIm F you said you thought deck talk would be good to
use with arkenstone at demos. I wholeheartedly agree with you. Trouble
is, that when vendors of products show them at demos to sighrted buyers
of blind people not used to computer speech, the people often don't gove
those products a fair chance. I know the agency I work for blew a whole
bunch of money on decktalks because, at the time, we, sighted and blind,
were so impressed with the speech. Only later did we realize that they
were clunky, wouldn't shut up and wouldn't even work with the best
speech program available at the time. Too litle too late. It's easy to
be sucked in by the superior quality of the deck speech, soanyting the
vendors of the products that work with others besides deck but also with
deck can do to make their products more immediately appealing is a good
idea. Of course, there are dealers who don't sell deck, so I guess
they're out of luck.

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