On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> An excellent and worthy project - but why the LCD
> display ?
Well my wife would rather walk up to LCD display on the wall and press the
up and down arrows to scroll through the messages and play them rather
than telnet into a box. This is based on historical findings in that any
time she goes to use the family computer I have _always_ mucked about with
some network/authentication/electrical thing and it never works the same
as it did last time (even though I have not actually physically touched
the box).
I would expect to have multiple interfaces, web, console, remote (via
phone) and LCD.
Um, another issue. How would people prefer a system to be built. I would
naturally build such a system for myself out of differrent programs
(vgetty/speach generator) glued together with something like Perl. Problem
is this then becomes an authors tool because of the all the modules and
configs one needs to get going.
Is it better to just write a dedicated app and maybe even copy some
code. You could integrate major or optional apps such as vgetty and the
speach to text.
I just know I have always had problems when it requires 10 different
packages to get something to work.
What do people suggest? How would you all approach the development?
Rodos
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