David.Tanner@f210.n273.z1.fidonet.org (David Tanner) (06/28/91)
Index Number: 16560 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] Thanks to the flexability of the Soundingboard softward you can actually get a bit better results with ASAP with the Soundingboard than with Sonix or many of the other synthesisors. Now, let's hope works on clearing up some of those little nagging problems that the Soundingboard has to take care of for him: all punctuation or no punctuation for example. Although the software seems to show promise there are some major problems that have to be solved before I would buy it for myself. One of the big problems is it is an absolute pain to use on any laptop computer. There must be a way to alternate between use of the numeric keypad and some other set of reading keys for those of us who spend 70% or more of our time working on laptop computers, and yester year keyboard option isn't the answer. Another problem is lack of ability to set pitch and tone of supported synthesisors. And, having to set windows etc. from the command line is really an extreemly poor way of doing it compaired to config or set files. Maybe the basic idea is good, and it certainly makes a lot more software talk automaticly, but it has a long way to go to get to the magor leagues with Vocal-eyes, Jaws2, or even Artic 3.03. D. T. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!273!210!David.Tanner Internet: David.Tanner@f210.n273.z1.fidonet.org