Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/15/85 11:16

Chris Morris wrote:
> Secondly:
> Yahoo radio needs sound because radio is a sound-based medium. There
> is no other practical [1] way to implement radio.
>
[snip]
>
> [1] Actually, if voice recognition software improved enough, it might
> be possible to make a sound driver that converted (either client or
> server side) from sound to a transcript. But for now, not practical.
>

Doesn't matter. In the US, live television broadcasts are
closed-captioned--by hand--and Yahoo radio could provide a text stream
as well. I'm not saying they *should*--much of the same information is
available in Yahoo and other news services in written form, so not much
would be gained by having the same written information synchronized with
Yahoo radio.

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