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From: orajean@betasvm2.vnet.ibm.com (Ora J. Williamson)
Subject: Re: Speaking In Tongues - Was IBM ICSS and Custom Voice
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In article <alvinCyCMtE.KDK@netcom.com>, alvin@netcom.com (Alvin H. White) says:
>
>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
>
>-- 
>
>alvin@netcom.com

Alvin:
When you say SoundBlaster "stuff", are you talking of the card itself, or
speech reco software that comes with it?  I ask because, the ICSS system
runs on any sound card (preferably 16-bit) that is supported by Windows,
OS/2 or AIX.  So a SoundBlaster CARD is fine to run ICSS and the demos
that use it.  But to run the demo, you need to purchase the ICSS runtime
system software...your sound card is quite sufficient.

Anyway, it doesn't matter.  I cannot give you the demo unless you buy ICSS...
Sorry!

Ora.

