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   Review - Virtual Hypnotist

   5.2 (Aug 11, 2005)

   Virtual Hypnotist is the best and most flexible self-hypnosis program ever. No one would say that it is the best possible program, but I would venture to say that it now represents the arrival of software that can be used seriously---maybe WordPerfect would be a good analogy.
   
   The negative reviews here reflect (1)ignorance of hypnosis: if you are not awakened from hypnosis by the hypnotist---in this case, VH---you either fall asleep or wake up by yourself; except in 19th-century horror stories, no one has ever been "stuck" in hypnosis (though many do remain stuck in ignorance); or (2) the misperception---which would seem to indicate very little time spent with the program before writing a review---that the speech synthesis is part of the program itself. It should be obvious to anyone that VH uses various other applications to do what it does, and being freeware itself, it has to rely on other freeware. Freeware speech synthesis is not that well developed---even the AT&T voices that you have to pay upwards of 30 dollars each for are not that great! It takes work---but quite acceptable results can be generated (I tend to prefer the British voices myself).
   
   As to the many bugs, mostly minor, found in earlier versions, most that I'm aware of have been fixed in the latest release, version 5.2.
   
   The most significant lack that needs to be remedied is the sameness of many of the scripts. But I believe that the program now has reached a stage where it will begin to inspire people to fill that gap.