The accidental tourist - portable computer voice translator

Nation's Business,  April, 1989  by Michael Barrier

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For the moment, though, the pressure is off: Rondel raised an additional $1.5 million late last year in a private placement of stock. Next year, he says, APT will begin introducing "voice-based" consumer products that sell for under $150--"mainstream products" that will be "immeasurably simpler to use" than existing versions.

APT's prospects thus appear brither than they did last year, when, Rondel says, "I looked into the pit." But he is well aware that APT's trials are not over yet. Sometimes, he is reminded, the visionaries, the people who really see the future clearly ... Rondel steps in to finish the thought, one he has obviously had himself: "They have to get killed. Unfortunately."

But he sasys it with a smile, like a man who has too firm a grip on the future to let go.

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