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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: mary@metrosoft.com (Mary Donnelly) Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Simon moves to Metrosoft Reply-To: info@metrosoft.com Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mary Donnelly (619) 488-9411 Fax: (619) 488-3045 E-mail: info@metrosoft.com Metrosoft Announces Simon Says 2.0 San Diego, July 3, 1993 - Metrosoft announced today that it is pleased to be taking over ownership of the popular Simon Says program. "We were impressed with Simon the first time we saw a demo at the 1992 NeXTWORLD Expo." said Mary Donnelly, E.V.P., Metrosoft, "If there is a way to make the NEXTSTEP platform look more impressive than it already is - Simon does it." Simon is a voice recognition program. It saves you time by performing a sequence of actions with one voice command. Simon can listen for voice commands for specific applications or globally . Voice commands are trainable to your voice, no matter what your language, dialect or accent. It is easy to use and a lot of fun too! Simon Says 2.0 will have an improved interface and added functionality. It will be distributed as a fat binary that will run on NEXTSTEP for Intel as well as NeXT computers. It will be available in October 1993. Currently anyone using Simon Says cannot run the program under NEXTSTEP 3.1. There is an intermediate upgrade, Simon Says 1.5. When pre-ordering Simon Says 2.0, you can receive version 1.5 now for free. Contact Metrosoft directly for new orders and upgrades. For product information, you can e-mail info@metrosoft.com. For technical support, please e-mail simon@metrosoft.com. Metrosoft is a San Diego based company specializing in the development and publishing of NEXTSTEP applications. -30-
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