Boy! You've have a lot to learn! Richard At 11:14 AM 3/31/2006, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Actually, the few thousand more sales would, or at least should >justify making a >mainstream device usable by disabled people. We're talking about a >few thousand >more sales over the few million sales they already make. More is >always better. >And since they have already done the bulk of the r&d to simply make their >product work, it isn't a big jump to make it work for people whose eyes don't >work, especially since most of that r&d has already been done, and not just by >assistive technology companies, but by companies who make products >and services >we use every day, such as TellMe, (voice recognition) and IBM, (voice >recognition and voice synthesis). It is actually an extremely >simple matter to >figure out how to get info to a speech synthesizer, and translation of voice >commands to typed characters and menu commands has already been done >on a number >of fronts. > >Lorenzo >- -- >Keep American Idol great! Vote for Mandisa! >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFELWOMG9IpekrhBfIRArIIAJsFIDPxHw4obmXerIKVcuUS7xyijwCgqfsS >TM5/5zgZDqkgL8+BNVYwdTk= >=xiyC >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
