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To: timbur who wrote (12969)	5/25/1999 3:40:00 PM
From: Plaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

OT You can download microsoft voice from their developer pages. Look for SAPI. They say repeatedly that it's only for developers, but all the runtimes are in there... Contains all their voice recognition and speech stuff. You'll need a close-talk mic though to get good (well, maybe good is stretching it) results though. Actually, the voice command stuff works pretty well because of the limited vocabulary. But the free-form dictation has such a big set of words to choose from that it's "not ready for prime time," in my opinion. You can hook up 2 keyboards with this circuit: 195.185.158.36 Circuit I built one; it works. If your soldering iron skills are rusty you can buy one from: hagstromelectronics.com Or just get a USB keyboard. Never seen a dual wireless before though... Plaz

To: timbur who wrote (12969)	5/25/1999 3:42:00 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

OT -- Multiple keyboards to the same computer are possible but not easy. There are a few companies that make a living by providing modules that allow multiple keyboards (or screens) to the same computer, single keyboard (and/or screen) to multiple computers. These solutions cost about $1,000 a piece. Sun Tzu

To: timbur who wrote (12969)	6/7/1999 12:20:00 PM
From: timbur	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

OT: DVD software player (Cinemaster98) When I bought my Voodoo3 with its infamous DVD player coupon, I already had the Creative Labs Encore 5x DVD player and its decoder card installed. Of course, I never used the passthrough cable for the decoder card, since it's of very poor quality and degrades the normal video signal at any res above 800x600. This weekend I downloaded and installed Cinemaster 98. After configuring it correctly, it works very well for displaying DVD movies on the monitor! To configure it properly, though, you must go into Control Panel and select the DVD player, then set it to "Full" instead of "Hardware Acceleration". That's because V3 does not support hardware acceleration. Still, the quality was good, in fact it was better than the decoder card probably because of the passthrough cable quality. Cheers, Tim