CHIPSpeaking Software
Chip used the CB handle
"Sand Crab"
years ago!
CHIP WAS A GENTLEMAN, WE WILL MISS HIM.
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The Legal Stuff:
CHIPSpeaking™ Software is properly licensed to redistribute Microsoft Agent Components. CHIPSpeaking™ Software makes no warranty concerning Microsoft's components. Microsoft makes no warranty about CHIPSpeaking components.
My brother George McF. Mood, III, P.A. is a pretty darned good guy. He enjoys gardening and computers. He also has A.L.S. His speech has been affected by the disease, along with part of his motor skills. He can, with great effort, use his arms, but fine motor skills are exceptionally difficult for him. He is known as Chip since he was a chip off the old block, according to our parents. Since this was originally written, Chip can now no longer use his hands or sit up without support. He still enjoys watching golf on TV. When Chip was healthy, he was one heck of a good golfer.
I named this software after Chip, who has been losing the capacity to speak due to A.L.S. (Amyeotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Motor Neuron Disease) commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, after the great baseball player.
Lou Gehrig held the consecutive games played record for over 50 years. The only thing that stopped him was this insidious neuromuscular disease.
When my brother George McFarlane Mood, III was diagnosed with A.L.S., he was beginning to speak poorly, but could be understood. In the space of the last two years, it has become more and more difficult for him to be understood.
Chip asked me while ago to seek out speech synthesis software. I found that 'name brand' programs ran $800.00 and up for the software. Some of these programs require additional proprietary software to work. The cheapest I found was a total of almost $ 2,000.00. I see that as an affront to the humanity of the victims of this and
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Lou Gehrig held the consecutive games played record for over 50 years. The only thing that stopped him was this insidious neuromuscular disease.
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CHIPSpeaking Software
112 Dean Court
Lexington, SC 29073-
