I'd say a week or maybe two weeks. After all what do you have to lose in extending the demo by a few days? You can only gain I think. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bannick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 4:41 PM Subject: [Audyssey] 7-128 Software free demo game book.
> Kelly and Tristan, > > As Thomas says, we're using Free Text To Speech from Carnagie Mellon. > The voice is named Kevin, after the fellow who did it. > Kevin says in his notes, "Hey, it's the best we could do for free" > I personally call it "Robbie the Robot on Acid". > > We didn't go with SAPI and DirectX because we want the games to be cross > platform. > I'd like to implement a JSAPI (as in Java) solution so we could use all > the > neat voices out there, especially the non-English ones. > But that probably isn't going to happen for awhile. > > The games do work with JAWS, though. > And the play testers seem to find that OK. > > It's good to hear that the Equals key toggling for the Game Voice is > evident to you. > The reason the Game Voice is off to start is that most of the people who > buy the games are not blind. > I worked with the Blind and Visually Impaired Users Group Webmeister here > in Boston, to smooth out the installation and set up process. (Actually, > Steve ripped my ears off over the first one.) > > I'm concerned about the delay you mention when you type in something. > Gotta look into that. > > Dark, > > Actually, I had some concerns about the free games vs. purchased Game Book > issue. > Got Marketing to agree to put some disclaimers, warnings, announcements, > whatever to that effect on the Web site. > The Popcorn games are what are called "Loss Leaders," stuff you lose money > on in order to just get people to look at your other stuff. > That's probably not going to change; but maybe someone can offer a better > way to communicate it. > > Folks, > > As to the demo time out. > We just added free demos, so that whole thing hasn't gelled yet. > > What number of days do you suggest? > > John Bannick > 7-128 Software > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
