HomeSeer News April 5,
2002
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* HomeSeer Technologies announces support for the
AT&T Natural Voices text-to-speech engines
* New features coming soon to HomeSeer 1.6
*
New
HomeSeer Plug-Ins
HomeSeer and AT&T
Voices
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Through an
agreement
with AT&T, HomeSeer Technologies now offers the AT&T Natural Voices to HomeSeer
users.
By purchasing these voices through us, you can save substantially over
purchasing them through AT&T. We are offering the base voices of Mike
and
Crystal in both 8khz and 16khz formats for $56.95. Voices
Rich
and Claire are also available for $19.95 each. Both the 8khz and 16khz
versions
of these voices are included.
Note that these introductory prices are good until June
1,
2002
Visit the
HomeSeer
Technologies product page for 16khz samples of all four
voices.
Note that these voices require more CPU power than the
standard voices and thus require a 300mhz or faster processor. Also, 128MB
of
memory is required. The voices are also large, each 16khz voice requires
about
700MB of disk space. These voices are available via CD
only.
To purchase, visit our online store
at:
Coming soon, HomeSeer 1.6
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HomeSeer 1.6 includes some cool new features that
have
been requested by our users. Here is a short list of what you can
expect to
see:
* New SAPI 5.1 Voice recognition. Voice recognition is
greatly
improved
* New power fail restore option to recover from power
failures
* Better support for ASP web pages. Create your own
custom web
pages
* Better control over device list and event list
printing
* All settings are stored in a single directory for easy
backup and transfer
* Many smaller changes and enhancements throughout
the
application
A beta of homeseer is available
at:
HomeSeer Plug-Ins
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New plug-ins continue to become available for HomeSeer.
The
current list includes:
ACT TI103 X10 controller
JDS Stargate
HomeVision
Applied Digital Ocelot
SmartLinc HouseLinc
X10 MR26A
RC80,RCS TR15 and TX15B
thermostats
Nirvis Slink-e
Coming soon:
HAI Omni security panel
SmartLinc TempLinc temperature
probe
SmartLinc IRLinc 1623 infrared
controller
SmartLinc PowerLinc X10
controller
Visit our support web page at www.homeseer.com/support.htm for
the latest versions of all supported plug-ins, as well as the latest
version of
HomeSeer.
Visit our message board for even more plug-ins that are
user
supported. Our message board also contains a script library loaded with
useful
scripts.
The HomeSeer message board
is
at:
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