I had a deal wherein the reading edge could accept inputs from an
1986 PC, which had vocal eyes, but used the speech synthizer of the
reading edge.
It only needed serial cord interfaces, and worked well with Q-modem mail
program.
Will
PS I'm told that reading edges go for $300 now, but know someone looking
for one. Will
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John G. Heim wrote:
Wow... You know what just occured to me... Wouldn't it be cool if
there was a hardware speech synthesizer emulator?
You plug a null-modem cable into your new computer, connect the other
end to a machine with speech already working, and run an emulator on
the machine with speech already running. The new machine thinks it's
talking to a doubletalk LT for example but it's really talking to
another computer.
It shouldn't even be very difficult to write. You wouldn't have to
worry about what is speaking. Just display whatever the synth is
supposed to be saying. It would be up to whatever speech engine is on
the old machine to do the talking. Write it in perl so it would be
portable, run on any platform.
Wow. I'm going to have to try this when I get home tonight. Connect a
null modem cable to the port my doubletalk would normally be connected
to and see what comes out on a terminal emulator on another machine.
Then, write a perl script to send the same string to the double talk
and see how it responds. And then write a perl script to say that same
thing to the linux box on the other side of the null modem cable.
Keep doing that until I essentually have a doubletalk LT emulator script.
Might take me more than one night though.
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