interesting experiment.

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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
> > >
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