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Technology Stocks : Zi-Corp (ZICA), formerly MCUAF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Stichnoth who wrote (1484)	9/21/1999 2:57:00 PM
From: Pete Mason	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2082

>> One possibility: A businessman in one area (speaks his local dialect and mandarin) calls across country and reaches a secretary who speaks only her local dialect. They use Zi input to let the secretary know who he wants to talk to. That other person (who speaks lthe second local dialect and mandarin) gets on the phone and the conversation goes on normally, in mandarin. This presupposes (1) both phones have Zi input, and (2) the input is sent instantly when the send button is hit, not as e-mail. << Many thanks, John, for posting that. But it seems to me that such a system would be germane to any region with multiple languages, for instance Europe; and the fact that people have been using phones quite successfully there for a long time suggests that it really isn't necessary. Might be nice, I suppose, but seems like a niche buyers would have to be talked into wanting, not one where people are currently crying out for a solution... Just my two cents, -- Pete