I totally agree. On Ebay these days, you can sometimes find good deals on Dectalk Expresses. And sometimes you can even find an old DTC01 for $5 or $10, but they are usually untested, or the person doesn't know how to use it and says that it powers up okay but is otherwise untested. Jayson. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin@Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net> To: <sbahram at nc.rr.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 9:51 PM Subject: Re: A good synth? > If it were me, I would buy a used DecTalk. > Glenn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com> > To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 10:05 AM > Subject: A good synth? > > > Hi guys, > > I need a good hardware synth. My employer is willing to spend around 300 > bucks or so....I need it to work with a variety of linux apps, like SpeakUP > for sure, and possibly EmacSpeak as well. Also anything else that uses a > hardware synth if that's possible. > > What's a good one people? In my opinion the DoubleTalk's quality is just > *shutter* but if that's the best for that price range, I guess I'll have to > go with that. > > Thank you all for any replies. > > Take care, > Sina > > > _______________________________________________ > 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