Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Darragh]

Could someone tell me where I can get some information on them?

Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[erik burggraaf]

The Email addy of the dude who posted the original to BST was emblazened
across the top.  Smile.  If you like, I'd be willing to hunt it down in my
deleted items and resend it, but you can probabley get at it just as easy
yourself.
Cheers,
Erik
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Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)


> Could someone tell me where I can get some information on them?
>
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Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Edward L. Barnes]

Hi there, Phil's email address is:
philwh@gate.net
Hth.
Ed
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, erik burggraaf 
wrote:

> The Email addy of the dude who posted the original to BST was emblazened
> across the top.  Smile.  If you like, I'd be willing to hunt it down in my
> deleted items and resend it, but you can probabley get at it just as easy
> yourself.
> Cheers,
> Erik
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> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)
> 
> 
> > Could someone tell me where I can get some information on them?
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Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Darragh]

My mistake, I accidently deleted the origional message.  I just found it in 
one of the replies.

darragh
At 00:57 17/10/2002, you wrote:
>Hi there, Phil's email address is:
>philwh@gate.net
>Hth.
>Ed
>On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, erik burggraaf
>wrote:
>
> > The Email addy of the dude who posted the original to BST was emblazened
> > across the top.  Smile.  If you like, I'd be willing to hunt it down in my
> > deleted items and resend it, but you can probabley get at it just as easy
> > yourself.
> > Cheers,
> > Erik
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Darragh" <darraghoheiligh@eircom.net>
> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)
> >
> >
> > > Could someone tell me where I can get some information on them?
> > >
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Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Mike Arrigo]

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
> >
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Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Charles Crawford]

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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Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Charles Crawford]

Well, we at ACB are certainly interested.

-- Charoie Crawford.
At 04:37 PM 10/16/02 -02-30, you 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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Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Edward L. Barnes]

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
> > 
> > 
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Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Edward L. Barnes]

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]

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
> 
> 

Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Darragh]

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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Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Gregory Nowak]

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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Re: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Alex Snow]

Yes I'm seriously looking into this one.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward L. Barnes" <ebarnes@enigma2.cjb.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:07 PM
Subject: new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)


>
>
> ---------- 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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new accentsa and accent pc available (fwd)

[Edward L. Barnes]

---------- 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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