News 04.20.2006

3pm will get some cool JavaScript controls in the next update. Nothing real special, just something I wanted to do for a while. For the person who asked when 3pm was started - March 15th, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. (Okay, so I don't actually remember the time of day it was).

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I installed Flite for Maemo on my 770 today. It works great! How cool is it to have text-to-speech running on the 770? It may be a while before we see speech recognition technology being served up on mobile devices, but this is definitely a plus for speech synthesis.

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