Re: We're in our final month!

From: spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 12:31:46 EST


[Moderator's note. And to you Nancilu for your years of participation
here, and of course your and your husband's work on making math more
accessible by voice. Bob]

Bob, thank you for your dedicated work in making this such a wonderful
resource!

Nancilu McClellan
Metroplex Voice Computing, Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: <spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org>
To: <spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: We're in our final month!

> [Moderator's note. Thanks Rosemary and I second your thanks to "everyone
> else." Other list members may continue to provide support in various
ways,
> although I have liked the fact that, with grant funding, we provided a
> "non-aligned" source of information and tried to keep things
> non-commercial as much as possible. I'll be sure to post the names of
> other lists and sources of information as they come in. Bob Follansbee]
>
> I'd just like to say a big"Thank You" to you, everyone else connected
with
> this listserv.
>
> It is a pity that the listserv could not get funding to continue as
there
> are a lot of people out here who have children with perplexing learning
> problems that are not being addressed by the education/remedial systems.
> Your listserv went a long way to helping these people get information
and
> help. (I am one of them).
>
> So thank you everyone, and best wishes for the future of speech
> recognition
> in education.
>
> Rosemary Mullens
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org>
> To: <spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 5:20 AM
> Subject: [EDC-spk2wrt] We're in our final month!
>
>
> > Dear spk2wrt list members,
> >
> > Well, after crying wolf a number of times, it is now official: our
> funding
> > from NIDRR runs out on 2/28/05. After that the listserv will have to
> close
> > it's doors. While I've been a bit of an absentee monitor over the last
> two
> > months or so, the list has also been pretty quiet, so I don't know
which
> > came first...
> >
> > Anyway, we've had a fine ride on the list since 1998 through two
> projects,
> > the original "Speaking to Write" and the second project "Word for
Word."
> > I'm pleased the list has continued to serve the community of people
> > interested in speech recognition in education. Our field is still
> emerging
> > I think, but the technology's improvements have made our work a lot
> > easier.
> >
> > The "Word for Word" project itself produced a prototype speech
> recognition
> > product that is being developed and will be sold by QuillSoft (maker
of
> > "WordQ") in Toronto.
> >
> > I will continue to send out messages (a bit more regularly) as they
> arrive
> > over the next four weeks, so get your questions together!
> >
> > Thanks to all,
> >
> > Bob Follansbee
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
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