[Pipet Devel] tapping the dialog stream

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Brad,

I'd like us to keep in mind, while the dialog system is being developed, that
we want to allow the dialog to be 'tapped' by another front-end.

All fronts will operate only by the permission of the middle.  Therefore,
multiple fronts listening to the middle will operate _simultaneously_.

What's the advantage of this?  Imagine being able to control the gi workspace
from the nli, or web, or any other front-end.  And when we get the nli working
with speech recognition, imagine being able to control the gi by voice!

This is also important for 'recording' the dialog or producing a transcript. 
As mentioned before, this transcript can act as an electronic notebook and be
'played back' like a tape recording.

It would even be helpful for development if we can tap into the dialog and spit
the XML out onto the screen.

Cheers.
Jeff
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