As I recall, the Speaqualizer plugged into a standard ISA slot, and copied video signals from the ISA bus. I believe a little, external control box was used for reviewing the screen and such. I was told that its weakest point was its not-so-great speech quality. I never owned one myself, but it was high on my wish list for a while. It seemed like a good idea, and I am surprised it did not catch on more than it did. On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:13:27PM -0800, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Interesting. How did this synth interface with the system, did it act as a video card, did it plug into the vga port of an existing video card? > > Greg > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid at sunset.net > >To: igueths at comcast.net,"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:49:08 -0800 > >Subject: Re: talking bios? > > >This project reminds me of the old Speaqualizer (possibly spelled > >wrong) speech synthesizer. The Speaqualizer was all hardware, so it > >was capable of reading everything that showed up on a text screen, > >including all prompts and info which showed up before the OS was > >loaded. This new project sounds promising--I hope it goes well. The > >project seems to have some serious support, so I think I will keep > >up with it as time allows. Thanks, and have a _great_ day! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. PARABOLA = x ^ 2
