The old macintalk voice (at that time I believe it was called
PlainTalker) was much more robotic. I think it was replaced in the
mid-90s.  The android people are working on implementing blindness
accessibiliity into the G1 (and apparently the android platform). The
phone uses a touchscreen.  Apparently wherever the finger lands will
be the 5 key, so all one has to do is slide their finger in the
direction of the desired number. Was this posted here already? Hmph.

On 3/21/09, Michael Babcock <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> never got to here the outspoken voice, any demos of it? haha
> On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
>
>>
>> Alex wouldn't even have to run on these devices, I would gladly settle
>> for something like the Fred voice or the old macintalk voice that
>> Outspoken used, anyone remember that?
>> On Mar 20, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Martin Pilkington wrote:
>>
>>> I think it isn't as much a case of the processor not being up to it,
>>> the processor in the iPhone and iPod touch isn't that much less
>>> powerful than the lowest processor Tiger could run on. Running Alex
>>> may require more processing power though. The big issue is
>>> interaction. There is no physical keyboard and no concept of hover,
>>> the multi touch screen is very much a look and touch interaction
>>> model. What would change this somewhat is a haptic feedback screen
>>> that would let you feel around for buttons.
>>>
>>> As for the RAM, the iPhone and iPod touch have 128MB of RAM, but
>>> developers really only get about 64MB to play around with.
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------
>>> Martin Pilkington
>>> Writer of Weird Symbols
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 Mar 2009, at 5:28 am, Chris Blouch wrote:
>>>
>>>> The actual processor and RAM footpring might not
>>>> be up to the task. This could explain the great lengths used to
>>>> avoid
>>>> multiple concurrent apps and the whole push notification system.
>>>> What if
>>>> they really only had 128MB to work with?
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>> >
>
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