Thanks Rich,
It's sort of like buying a new car except you
find that the wipers don't work...so you make
do by only driving on rainy days. Or you'd like
some tunes but, alas...the radio functions don't
work either...so you make do and sing or whistle.
The speech thing, as we've discussed, is also a
real pain in the butt! Hal won't let me modify it's
voices from within the General Options.
I think the problem (or at least part of it) lies in
the fact that the speech routines and also the
aforementioned items are contained in the .exe
file and are not user accessible.
Well, my friend, when I buy a car I expect ALL of its
features / functions to work! If not, they either fix
it, the car goes back and / or I buy another car.
Sorry for the ranting. Hal really does have a lot of potential.
It would be nice if people would at least concentrate on fixing
the things that are broken before trying to modify the rest of Hal.
There are important features that benefit visually or hearing
impaired people like the font size, color, hearing phone numbers
spoken properly instead of like a 5th grade multiplication problem.
Yes I am aware of some others and while I know that nothing in this
world is perfect, things should at least work as purported.
Until next time,
- Art -