--- Forwarded Message from Philippe Delcloque <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: Philippe Delcloque <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: #5910.7 an all-digital Mac LL ? (!) >Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:47:13 -0000 ------------------ This is obviously something which has changed relatively recently, as I said, in Europe in 1994, the UK Tandberg rep. told me that the company had been forced to integrate the Mac in labs due to (world-wide) demand (I presume mostly in the USA and Australasia). You can't blame developers and hardware manufacturers like Tandberg/Teleste or Sony, Can8, etc... They have to consider the size of the market. It is a vicious circle because it means Macs are used less and less in labs. It seems to me though that the biggest mistake lies with Apple who has NOT plowed enough effort in the speech interface (speech recognition in particular). It has to be ironic that the company who brought out the first widely available talking computer in 1984, who then produced half decent speech synthesis with MacinTalk has not been able to push the envelope with SR, ironic indeed because if you type the expression "Speech Technology" in a good search engine such as google.com, the topmost site is Apple's speech section! Plaintalk has been developed for 2 languages, American English and Mexican Spanish and its functionalities are basic compared to the best speaker independent tools available from SR companies. This will matter in the Language Lab. interface of the present and future. We just have to collectively lobby Apple. Philippe > ---------- > From: LLTI-Editor > Reply To: Language Learning and Technology International Information > Forum > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 16:05 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: #5910.7 an all-digital Mac LL ? (!) > > --- Forwarded Message from "Daniel E. Meyers" <[log in to unmask]> --- > > >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> > >References: <[log in to unmask]> > >Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:40:54 -0500 > >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum > <[log in to unmask]> > >From: "Daniel E. Meyers" <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: Re: #5910.5 an all-digital Mac LL ? (!) > > ------------------ > Hi Loreen. The problem for us Mac users is that there is no > commercial product for Mac labs. We have been forced to cobble > something together for years. The original post on this thread was > the lament that the commercial companies don't see the Mac as > profitable, therefore they don't want to "waste the time or energy" > to make a Mac product. > > --- Forwarded Message from "Loreen Stone" <[log in to unmask]> --- > > Actually, the digital version of Tannberg will allow movies to be > played at student stations individually, allowing the sort of control > one might wish. The movie would have to have been loaded to a server > first, and then each student can access at will. (We have a PC lab; > I'm assuming there is a corresponding Mac product as well.) > > -- > =========================================================== > Daniel E. Meyers - Director of the Interactive Language Resource Center > 47 Irvin Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056-1848 > Office: (513) 529-2510 - Lab: (513) 529-4505 - Fax: (513) 529-1807 > Pager: (513) 820-0219 - E-Mail: [log in to unmask] > WWW: http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~ilrc/ > =========================================================== >