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From: alvin@netcom.com (Alvin H. White)
Subject: Re: Speaking In Tongues - Was IBM ICSS and Custom Voice
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 20:41:38 GMT
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orajean@betasvm2.vnet.ibm.com (Ora J. Williamson) writes:
>In article <alvinCy789D.BB1@netcom.com>, alvin@netcom.com (Alvin H. White) says:
>>orajean@betasvm2.vnet.ibm.com (Ora J. Williamson) wrote:
>>>About a year ago, I wrote an ICSS demo called Speaking In Tongues.  
>>I don't know whether public pleas could influence its being 
>>posted to an FTP site but I, for one, would love to hear it. 

>I could post the demo but you'd need to purchase ICSS runtime environment
>first...
>Ora.

I question your use of the word "first..." I would like to have a copy
of the demo with hopes that in the longer term I might later aquire
the ability to run it. I collect impressive things that have long term
value. Your discription of the "Speaking In Tongues" demo, I believe,
fills that criterion for the long term. For the short term, the chances
of any one thing moving me off Sound Blaster stuff is  very small. Over
time, however, old software falls in price. If I had the demo on my
nic-nac shelf it might remind me that someday I would like to acquire
other pieces of the puzzle. It would seem that your funding source
might hope that the one drop of hope might float the whole boat but
personally money is tight, SB has a wide distribution world wide, with
the SB AWE32 distribution of shareware development tools like Esbkay
and Vienna, jack of all trades master of none, and price, price, price.

So I would save the demo, if you posted it, hoping either to later
obtain the rest or hoping that someone mighht be able to port it to
more available sound equipment. I, for one, would recommend your
obtaining government funding to make a more publicly useable, cheaper,
version, hoping that the publicity would increase orders for the higher
quality and higher priced versions. 

alvin

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