Subject: Re: announcement of a freeware mac program

From: Yuan Jiang <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 09:13:18 CDT

Liedong's Mandarin is a very interesting software.  It's
like you are a big boss and have a secretary reading the
newspaper loud to you.

I saw such a software for English a few years ago.  Beside
being monotone, it read a MacWrite English text file perfectly
and even could pronouce a few 4-letter words.

It's Liedong's big idea that Chinese (Mandarin) is actually
easier in text->language conversion than English.  In another
word, Chinese may be easier when comes to making multi-media
software.

This advantage relates to the difficulty in Chinese input
and voice recognition.  It's the old problem of
multi-character mapping of PinYin->GB(Big5).
However, the difficulty is an advantage when Liedong
does the reverse conversion.