Thanks to all for your input. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:24 AM Subject: Re: DecTalk synths One other flavor of Dectalk was that offered by the Kurzweil Personal Reader, a reading machine sold in the late 80's/early to mid 90's. One of its features was that it used Dectalk for its speech synthesis and could offer a mode called either Dectalk Input in older versions or Speech Input in newer versions, where it could be used just like a Dectalk synthesizer. We still have one of those things and that's exactly what we use it for. Jayson. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:24 AM Subject: Re: DecTalk synths > The Dectalk External is a rather old synthesizer. It is a huge box with a > rocker switch on the front. When it is powered up, a fan comes on, then > it makes touch-tone noises. Finally, it says something like "Dectalk > version 2.8 is running." I don't remember the version number, but it's > something like that. I haven't ran across one of those in years. The > speech sounds somewhat different from modern Dectalk synthesizers. It's > also extremely sluggish, taking several seconds to respond to a flush > command. The bottom line is that very few people probably have that old > beast and yours is likely a Dectalk Express. There were a few other > external Dectalk models, but I don't think they ever saw much circulation. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
