* Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)
` Gregory Nowak
@ ` Darragh
` Charles Crawford
` Gregory Nowak
` (2 subsequent siblings)
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From: Darragh @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Where can I get information on them?
At 23:27 16/10/2002, you wrote:
>For those who use the accent pc units, can anybody tell me how they sound
>with speakup and window-eyes? Anyway that someone may be able to compare
>it to a doubletalk pc? This sounds like a bargain, I'm seriously thinking
>about it.
>
>Greg
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:37:21PM -0230, Edward L. Barnes wrote:
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:38:04 -0400
> > From: philwh@gate.net
> > To: bst@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: new accentsa and accent pc available
> >
> > Hi.
> > The inventer of the accent sa and accent pc hardware speech
> > synthesizer is trying to get rid of his inventory.
> > He has 15 new Accent sa units and 100 accent pc
> > available.
> >
> > they are brand new.
> >
> > prices are extremely cheap.
> > less than $100 for the accentsa and less than $40 for the accent pc.
> > If he can't sell them by next month, he will donate them to a local agency
> > which may just take them apart for the parts.
> > he also isn't going to repair any accent speech synthesizers anymore,
> > but will send someone parts to fix their own.
> >
> > if anyone is interested,, Please contact me, and I'll pass ont he info.
> >
> > phil
> >
> >
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` Darragh
@ ` Charles Crawford
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From: Charles Crawford @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
I used accent in the past with dos and it was very good.
-- Chrlie Crawford.
At 11:34 PM 10/16/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Where can I get information on them?
>At 23:27 16/10/2002, you wrote:
>>For those who use the accent pc units, can anybody tell me how they sound
>>with speakup and window-eyes? Anyway that someone may be able to compare
>>it to a doubletalk pc? This sounds like a bargain, I'm seriously thinking
>>about it.
>>
>>Greg
>>
>>
>>On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:37:21PM -0230, Edward L. Barnes wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:38:04 -0400
>> > From: philwh@gate.net
>> > To: bst@yahoogroups.com
>> > Subject: new accentsa and accent pc available
>> >
>> > Hi.
>> > The inventer of the accent sa and accent pc hardware speech
>> > synthesizer is trying to get rid of his inventory.
>> > He has 15 new Accent sa units and 100 accent pc
>> > available.
>> >
>> > they are brand new.
>> >
>> > prices are extremely cheap.
>> > less than $100 for the accentsa and less than $40 for the accent pc.
>> > If he can't sell them by next month, he will donate them to a local agency
>> > which may just take them apart for the parts.
>> > he also isn't going to repair any accent speech synthesizers anymore,
>> > but will send someone parts to fix their own.
>> >
>> > if anyone is interested,, Please contact me, and I'll pass ont he info.
>> >
>> > phil
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > Sell a Home with Ease!
>> > http://us.click.yahoo.com/SrPZMC/kTmEAA/jd3IAA/86xolB/TM
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------~->
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>> >
>> >
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>> >
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* Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)
` Gregory Nowak
` Darragh
@ ` Gregory Nowak
` Edward L. Barnes
` Edward L. Barnes
` Mike Arrigo
3 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
I forgot to ask, what actual price do the accent pc units go for usually? Thanks.
Greg
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:27:28PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> For those who use the accent pc units, can anybody tell me how they sound with speakup and window-eyes? Anyway that someone may be able to compare it to a doubletalk pc? This sounds like a bargain, I'm seriously thinking about it.
>
> Greg
>
>
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` Gregory Nowak
@ ` Edward L. Barnes
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From: Edward L. Barnes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
They're not made any more so other than these all you can get are used
accent pcs and sas.
Don't remember what they sold for in their glorry days however if ya
want to know really badly let me know and I'll dig up an old Aicomm
price list that I have here somewhere though it's probably vintidge 1990
or 1991.
Hth and btw though I don't remember original pricing I do know as I own
one of each that these are almost a give-away and I'll respond to your
other note in this thread momentarily. Ed
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Gregory
Nowak wrote:
> I forgot to ask, what actual price do the accent pc units go for usually? Thanks.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:27:28PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > For those who use the accent pc units, can anybody tell me how they sound with speakup and window-eyes? Anyway that someone may be able to compare it to a doubletalk pc? This sounds like a bargain, I'm seriously thinking about it.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
>
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* Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)
` Gregory Nowak
` Darragh
` Gregory Nowak
@ ` Edward L. Barnes
` Mike Arrigo
3 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Edward L. Barnes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi there Greg, the accent pc and the accent sa units sound very similar
to each other, however; your question posed below is one which I find
challenging to answer even though I own a pc and an sa and I've used the
Double-Talk pretty extensively.
Well, before I even attempt an answer let me just say that it's been my
experience that most people are on one of two sides in regard to the
accent units, those who love them love them alot, and its detractors
almost dispize it.
The accent units sound what I'll term much more robotic than do the
double-talk in the views of many, however; the accent sa and pc both
produce very crisp speech and both the sa and the pc are capable of
very high speech rates while still maintaining crispness to the ear and
understandability.
Both units also support higher rates of speech output than do the
double-talk unless you've got one of the double-talks that's been
modified, believe if memory serves correctly one of the guys at
Micro-talk modified the Double-talk in some form or another to allow it
do produce higher rates of speech output than it's normally capable of
by default.
In closing, the sound of a synth is very subjective so it's hard to
describe it verbally imho but I have one here and I am guessing there
are lots of others on list who use them, if we're on the reflector
together some time I'd be happy to hit my space bar to transmit and say
read a short document so you could hear it, also I should be around mot
of tonight and though I've got a couple of things to get done if ya
wanted to give me a quick ring my home phone number is +1-709-596-3165.
You could also hear it that way.
Btw, I'm in Newfoundland in Canada so my timezone is -03:30 behind UTC
so the only thing I ask is that you not call me after 9 utc if you do
decide to call me as after that you'd probably wake up other people.
Ed
On
Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> For those who use the accent pc units, can anybody tell me how they sound with speakup and window-eyes? Anyway that someone may be able to compare it to a doubletalk pc? This sounds like a bargain, I'm seriously thinking about it.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:37:21PM -0230, Edward L. Barnes wrote:
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:38:04 -0400
> > From: philwh@gate.net
> > To: bst@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: new accentsa and accent pc available
> >
> > Hi.
> > The inventer of the accent sa and accent pc hardware speech
> > synthesizer is trying to get rid of his inventory.
> > He has 15 new Accent sa units and 100 accent pc
> > available.
> >
> > they are brand new.
> >
> > prices are extremely cheap.
> > less than $100 for the accentsa and less than $40 for the accent pc.
> > If he can't sell them by next month, he will donate them to a local agency
> > which may just take them apart for the parts.
> > he also isn't going to repair any accent speech synthesizers anymore,
> > but will send someone parts to fix their own.
> >
> > if anyone is interested,, Please contact me, and I'll pass ont he info.
> >
> > phil
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
> > Sell a Home with Ease!
> > http://us.click.yahoo.com/SrPZMC/kTmEAA/jd3IAA/86xolB/TM
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------~->
> >
> > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
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> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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` Gregory Nowak
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
` Edward L. Barnes
@ ` Mike Arrigo
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From: Mike Arrigo @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
They use the ssi263 chip for speech, so they would sound very much like an
artic synthesizer, any of the older blazie note takers, a sounding board, or
a speakout.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)
> For those who use the accent pc units, can anybody tell me how they sound
with speakup and window-eyes? Anyway that someone may be able to compare it
to a doubletalk pc? This sounds like a bargain, I'm seriously thinking about
it.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:37:21PM -0230, Edward L. Barnes wrote:
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:38:04 -0400
> > From: philwh@gate.net
> > To: bst@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: new accentsa and accent pc available
> >
> > Hi.
> > The inventer of the accent sa and accent pc hardware speech
> > synthesizer is trying to get rid of his inventory.
> > He has 15 new Accent sa units and 100 accent pc
> > available.
> >
> > they are brand new.
> >
> > prices are extremely cheap.
> > less than $100 for the accentsa and less than $40 for the accent pc.
> > If he can't sell them by next month, he will donate them to a local
agency
> > which may just take them apart for the parts.
> > he also isn't going to repair any accent speech synthesizers anymore,
> > but will send someone parts to fix their own.
> >
> > if anyone is interested,, Please contact me, and I'll pass ont he info.
> >
> > phil
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
> > Sell a Home with Ease!
> > http://us.click.yahoo.com/SrPZMC/kTmEAA/jd3IAA/86xolB/TM
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------~->
> >
> > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> > BST-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
> >
> >
> >
> > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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>
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