I still have a working Votrex. Well, it was working the last time I had it plugged in to a system about 15 years ago. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:20 AM Subject: Re: ancient speech synthesizers > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > For the record, I don't find that tooooo strange. I think it would be > fassinating to hear the speach of some of these. Hey, would people maybe > be interested in having an archive of various speach synthesizers > reading the same passage so they can be analyzed and stuff? Both old and > new synths of course. > > Tyler Spivey wrote: >> Just out of curiosity, what have any of you used for ancient synths? I'm >> not talking the well-known ones such as accent/artic, I'm talking >> something like Votrax anything, Covox, or any ones that are strange. >> It'd be cool to get one of those, but they're probably all gone to >> history. What brought this up? Some weird speech package called Enable >> that supported some of those which appears to be from the 80's. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFFK1fiJ6dqn0mqPbARA203AJ0dSJLRwkViVSpPcgKtLcwYoknl6QCglRzb > S4jlvwy9Q0KsS3bjXzyWPUw= > =Vn+w > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
