From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from scanmail3.cableone.net ([24.116.0.123] helo=mail.cableone.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BW47R-0006MT-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:07:41 -0400 Received: from desktop (unverified [24.116.252.4]) by smail3.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.5d2) with ESMTP id 22677574 for multiple; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:54:27 -0700 Message-ID: <007f01c449d7$866b6d00$7700a8c0@desktop> From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" To: "Jayson Smith" , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <001f01c4496e$13617200$6500a8c0@h2c8f0> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 20:59:09 -0500 Organization: Home MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com Cc: Subject: Re: DecTalk synths X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: Glenn Ervin at Home , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 02:07:41 -0000 Thanks to all for your input. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayson Smith" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup