After upgrading to the Smooth Talker, the first synthetic speech system that could sing, Snoopi started the long hard road of becoming a singer. Over the next five years he took music classes, hired a private teacher, and sang at various places around the Twin Cities in Minnesota. Along the way, PRC upgraded Snoopi's Touch Talker to DECtalk speech. Eventually Snoopi purchased a Liberator, which was easier to program, had word processing and notebooks built in, and could import text files. Snoopi's music career took off like wildfire.
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Snoopi is best known for sharing his music all over the world with people who also want to sing with their communication devices. In 1996, Snoopi started giving 3-hour workshops with the Pacer Center in Minneapolis. Snoopi demonstrated over 30 devices during the workshops and was given a special half-hour just to focus on PRC and Minspeak. This was the start of Snoopi's own realization that Minspeak is the only vocabulary method that truly offers true access to language. Snoopi then had the opportunity to teach a special education class at the University of Minnesota under Professor Steve Robinson.