Newton Speech Dance Drill

I believe that SONY at one time was worried about Apple computers playing their games. Here is a new speech synthesis instructive dance game that SONY (at least a new sort of "hearing aid") can play with Newton. If you are interested and already have Newton speech synthesis, check out my freeware and its idea. My "Dance" is a newton program that tells dance moves with or without coaching on how to do them. It plays the step list in random sequences so that you can learn to firm up your lead. The strongest most painful way to learn lead is to not have the woman hear what the move is your Newton says to you. She has no way of knowing except through your lead (unless you cheat and tell her what Newton said) what move is coming next. You will make mistakes, it will be embarrassing, with a kind partner you will learn. You may practice a subset of the full steplist and work up to the full steplist challenge. A dance partner might prefer to practice this "silent treatment" in private lest they associate the Newton program with public embarrassment. It can be learned! My partner and I have and we aren't afraid to use the Newton in public together. In the private partnering environment, the woman can more graciously suggest how the man's lead could be made less confusing, so that the man can learn the lead without an impartial arbiter. This is frightening at first outside the normal dance instruction context with the teacher superior and no such discussion allowed as disruptive to the rest of the class. This new context of discussion of dance with a partner is very very interesting to me. So, for best results, practice privately and make a hearing aide arrangement I have made. It is cumbersome and I wish SONY would make a spread spectrum connection to a wireless ear "dancing hearing aide". For my "el cheapo version", you can use a radio shack phone pickup and (use a candle, two mending braces, c clamps) bent piece of lexan to suction pickup onto near Newton speaker and run a earphone wire inside your shirt to your ear. The dance notes might be exceptionally meaningful only to me as I own the project and can constantly revise them. I am not out to teach you dancing, but rather the idea of my Dance package. When you get the idea, you might make it come alive with improvements. Maybe one of you will make a more fascile interface. Maybe someone will invent a forarm Newton holster so all screen buttons are readily accessible and it will be more "quick on the draw". Right now I have a side holster and ready access only to the on/off button. When a dance begins, I must take the newton out and choose the dance type while the nervous dance instructor complains I should get on with dancing.