CA>Hello Wayne -

CA>CA>> Found what seems to be a good video editing application
CA>CA>> with a tutorial MPG that is well thought out but the
CA>CA>> narrator has such a 'thick' accent when speaking English
CA>CA>> and talks so fast it's difficult to follow. :-\ I realize
CA>CA>> this sounds petty but the accent is _really_ 'thick' and
CA>CA>> it seems to be a program that took some time to write. Why
CA>CA>> lose the audience for lack of a narration in clearly
CA>CA>> pronounced English?

CA>MM>> An interesting concept, even if not well done! Would you
CA>MM>> be so kind as to post a name for that application? I've
CA>MM>> gotten to the point where I can no longer read .doc files
CA>MM>> without a series of unintended extended 'naps', and by
CA>MM>> that time, I've forgotten where I left off and can NEVER
CA>MM>> get to the end. :-((

CA>WC> My old SoundBlaster software from 1994 has a primitive
CA>WC> SBTalker application that will read text files. Kinda
CA>WC> robotic sounding and can be annoying at times but it works.

CA>W2K has a built in screen reader that 'talks'. I stumbled onto
CA>it way back when I first got this machine and turned it on just
CA>to hear it 'speak'. It's not too terribly bad and compares well
CA>to third party apps purporting to do much the same. Funny
CA>really that people still try to sell third party software to do
CA>what is built into newer Windows. :-)

Does it hear to send also?  I have a spare Trigem (the early
producer of the now Emachine 8-( I am trying to bring up to
usefullness for a legally blind friend of a friend at church
and the W2K facility might be more usefull than trying to
teach ViaVoice to read and write Win98se for her if possible.

Ciao, Ack.

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