Book Announcement from TV Raman "Over the past two years, you've probably heard me say more than once that I strongly believe that speech interfaces for the mainstream computer user will be the next big revolution once the Internet excitement has blown over." "Over the last sixteen months, I've spent most of my weekends writing down these user interface ideas in a book entitled "Auditory User Interfaces - Toward The Speaking Computer"." The book is published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston and you can visit it at: http://cs.cornell.edu/~raman/aui or order the book over the Internet from the publishers WWW site at: http://www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/book.htm?0-7923-9984-6 "Accessibility note: I'll try and have an accessible version made available via RFB&D as soon as possible." Book Details: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9984-6 August 1997, 168 pp. Contents: 1. Speech-enabled Applications 2. Nuts and Bolts of Auditory Interfaces 3. Audio Desktop 4. Concrete Implementation of an Audio Desktop 5. Speech-enabling the WWW Share and enjoy: TV Raman Adobe Systems Tel: 408/536-3945 (W14-129) Advanced Technology Group Fax: 408/537-4042 (W14 129) 345 Park Ave. Email: raman@adobe.com San Jose, CA 95110-2704 Email: raman@cs.cornell.edu http://labrador.corp.adobe.com/~raman/ (Adobe Intranet) http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.html (Cornell) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are my own and in no way should be taken as representative of my employer, Adobe Systems Inc. ___________________________________________________________________________