... used in bathroom sales situa-tions to help clients redesign their rooms. The inputto the system includes speech, handwriting, and pengestures; the output combines synthesised speech, atalking ... control of the underlying applica-tion. Figure 1 shows screen shots of the COMICinterface.There are four main phases in the demonstra-tor. First, the user specifies the shape of theirown bathroom, ... speech synthesiser to finalise the schedules for the other modalities, the synthesiserfirst prepares and stores the waveform for its inputtext; the sound is then played at a later time, when the fission...