At 8:54 AM 11/28/97, M Goodes wrote: SNIP > Something with a voice interface, using the existing speech manager. > > The project does not have to be comprehensive, just targeted, with room to > grow. An app that does everyday tasks would be a good beginning. Some > kind of Finder scripting, possibly. One that allows the user to say > something like, "Computer, get me my e-mail" in order to trigger a script > of sorts. (Of course, one would follow this with, "computer, read me all > the FB listserver messages".) In other words, some kind of Voice Shell. > > Another possibility is to take the database idea and develop it into a > voice-scriptable app. Imagine a user being able to design a database by > saying, "computer, configure menu bar. Put these items into File menu. > Define tasks for item 'open file'., etc." > > I know this is probably way too ambitious, and that I've watched way too > much Star Trek in my life, but you are a wonderfully forgiving and > industrious group of people. Right now only a small fraction of people own > computers. Why not convince the new buyers to buy Macs. Text Reading (voice synthesis?) technology might create a next big market. Voice-dictionary, Text-parser and Text-reader will be soon in every PCs. You can customize your voice-dictionary to meet yours, then you send your dictionary to your mother or friends. You have your friends' dics. Emails (text files) will be read by sender's voice, they say the voice will be very good to mimic your tone, accent and so on....Isn't it neat? I also heard that American English is worst (hardest) to make the dictionary, Japanese and Italian are very similsar in view of voice synthesis. P.S. RE. Utility to do file management (rename, delete, move.....), there is a program called 'FilterTop', it looks like quite a program, check at the web < http://www.topsoft.org > and find find Project/FilterTop. kiyo -.- .. -.-- --- -.-- ..- -.- .. -.- .. ... .. -- --- - --- Kiyoyuki Kisimoto /+81-298-54-3597(voice),-3589(fax)/ Research Counsellor, Japan Geological Survey 1-1-3, Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8567 http://www.gsj.go.jp/~kiyo/default.html .-- . .-.. --- ...- . --. . --- .-.. --- --. -.--