If that comment was addressed to me (not sure if was back to Yaron or not)... This was going down in early to mid '99. If I recall correctly, the first commercial MP3 players were just coming to market and cost more than the parts he bought to build his own. Plus it was just a fun project for him. Andrew Nemchenko wrote: > > Why dont you just go to wall mart and buy a mp3 playing cd player for $95. > Its cheap and easy to use. Plus you can even take it outside of yor car. > > Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Jesse Erdmann wrote: > > > > > The only problem he was having was that when he trained the speech > > > software it often wouldn't work due to road noise. Ah well... it was > > > still a pretty cool idea. Still worked great indoors. -- Jesse Erdmann Engineer Secure Computing Corp.