The sound quality of DecTalk PC 1 is very bad. It uses an 8 bith sound encription and it has a bad noise. The voice is not very good also. Via voice is pretty good. I wish I could do something to stop it crashing. Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 6:20 AM Subject: Re: interesting experiment. Did you say you have a DEC Talk internal? Use it. On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Ok, at least I know what is the problem now. > Are there any better software sinthesizers than Via voice that can work > with emacspeak? > I don't care too much about responsiveness. I care about the sound quality. > > Thanks. > Teddy, > orasnita at home.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 7:58 AM > Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > > > I believe he is speaking of ViaVoice, and it does crash. Now, if > the source were available, someone of us would undoubtedly have > solved this issue. But it isn't. > > So, don't blame Linux. Blame IBM and the Windows mindset that > they brought to Linux in ViaVoice. > > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Cecil H. Whitley wrote: > > > Hi, > > Just a minor question, are you speaking of viavoice outloud for windows or > > linux?? Things crashing under windows is normal, expected behavior. I > > would go so far as to inquire if possibly there is a "crashed_recently" > > variable within windows along with a random countdown timer...... > > Regards, > > Cecil > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at home.ro> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 8:45 PM > > Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > > > > > > > Do you mean that using Emacspeak is easier than using Windows? > > > Nice joke. Really. > > > And ... without a hardware sinthesizer, with that IBM Via Voice that > likes > > > to crash so often, or other software sinthesizers hard to understand, > ... > > > Teddy, > > > orasnita at home.ro > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Ann Parsons" <akp at eznet.net> > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 11:53 PM > > > Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Why don't you try Emacspeak and quit yawping! There *is* a speech > > > output system that uses software speech. > > > > > > Ann P. > > > > > > -- > > > Ann K. Parsons > > > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > > > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > > > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." > > > JRRT > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
