Eric Scheirer wrote:

> The MPEG-4 standard is finished (as of Oct 1998), and
> SAOL and the rest of Structured Audio is a key part.
> Any full implementation of the MPEG-4 standard is
> required to include real-time synthesis using SAOL.

Are there any sound cards coming out that will have hardware
acceleration for running SAOL?  That would be pretty darned nifty, to
put it mildly.