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In article <1992Apr7.083326.23643@samba.oit.unc.edu> wind1289@med.unc.edu (Stuart Kossover) writes:
>
>6. It would be nice if Simon could open specific files, like a telephone
>directory created with Andy Stone's fabulous DataPhile without me having
>to launch it first.  Maybe there could be a Doc receptical to drop these
>files into.
>

Wouldn't a unix-macro "open <filename>" do this?... admittedly,
drag-and-drop would be nicer... maybe have the unix panel read a path
from drag-and-drops and append/replace the selection with this "open
<filename>" construction?

>Stu Kossover, M.D.  e-mail----->  wind1289@med.unc.edu

Stuart,
We encourage users to route these type of questions through the built-in  
email feedback mechanism. 

I'll get ahold of Illustrator and check out the first problem you  
reported. The reason we suggest that Mouse macros in general are placed in  
Application levels is that they are tied to applications anyway and do not  
make sense to be in a level which is generally always in hot memory and  
for commands which get executed for all applications.

Stuart Kossover writes
> 2. Changes to the Preference Panel appear to be activated only when  
Simon
> is quit and started again.
> 
There is supposed to be string on the Preferences panel which says that  
you need to restart listening mode before some changes will take affect.
Looks like this got removed when the panel was redone for looks. I'll make  
sure it gets put back on.

> 3. It would be nice if Simon would playback my voice commands so I could
> remind myself of how I enunciated them. I sit there sometimes repeating
> commands with permutations and combinations of inflections to the point  
of
> giving up and retraining them.
> 

We have had several people ask for this. The sounds are purposely deleted  
to save disk space. If a word is approx. a second and sampled 3 times.  
This is 24K a word. If you have 100 words this is 2.4 Meg of disk space.

> 4. It would be nice if Simon would open up its browser to the  
highlighted
> command that was successful last. Chances are this would be in the
> application that I would currently be using.   This would quickly
> facilitate adding or retraining commands for that application without
> having to browse through the limited view that is offered at this time.
> 
Sounds reasonable.

> 5. I spoke to Dave Peters at HSD who was very informative. He said he
> believes the BackSpace Application to conflict with some of Simon's
> functions.  I had BackSpace running when I first started using Simon. I
> found, however, that quitting BackSpace and starting from scratch with
> Simon made no difference in the afore mentioned issues.
> 
The problem with backspace and SimonSays 1.0 is a bozo bug on my part. It  
is only a problem if you are training. You will get a 30-60 second delay  
when you start training and between words. This is fixed and will be in  
the first maintenance release.

> 6. It would be nice if Simon could open specific files, like a telephone
> directory created with Andy Stone's fabulous DataPhile without me having
> to launch it first.  Maybe there could be a Doc receptical to drop these
> files into.
> 
The only way to do this currently is with the open command in a UNIX  
object.

	-greg.

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In article <1992Apr8.150518.962@agog.com> greg@agog.com (Greg Cockroft) writes:

   > 3. It would be nice if Simon would playback my voice commands so I could
   > remind myself of how I enunciated them. I sit there sometimes repeating
   > commands with permutations and combinations of inflections to the point  
   of
   > giving up and retraining them.
   > 

   We have had several people ask for this. The sounds are purposely deleted  
   to save disk space. If a word is approx. a second and sampled 3 times.  
   This is 24K a word. If you have 100 words this is 2.4 Meg of disk space.

Save only the version of the word that best matches the stored correlation
"template", and downsample it to 5K.  The playback will be telephone
quality, but it will convey the intonations the user is looking for.
And now you're down to 500K of disk.

--
Hugh Secker-Walker                    INTERNET:  hugh@ear-ache.mit.edu
MIT, Research Lab of Electronics      UUCP:      mit-eddie!mit-athena!hugh
     "The good news is the ear has 30,000 channels to the brain,
      the bad news is they're all nonlinear" -- M.B. Sachs

In article <1992Apr7.083326.23643@samba.oit.unc.edu> wind1289@med.unc.edu  
(Stuart Kossover) writes:

>  2. Changes to the Preference Panel appear to be activated only when Simon
>  is quit and started again.

Simon seems to read the preferences when he goes into Listening mode, so either  
go to Training mode before changing the prefs or go to Training mode and then  
back to Listening after you change the prefs...   Faster than restarting.


andrew
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