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Hi,

I think it plubbed into the VGA port on an existing video card.  It must have done something like ocr on the displayed stuff?

-Dave


Gregory Nowak writes:
 > Interesting. How did this synth interface with the system, did it act as a video card, did it plug into the vga port of an existing video card?
 > 
 > Greg
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 > > ----- Original Message -----
 > >From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid@sunset.net
 > >To: igueths@comcast.net,"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca
 > >Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:49:08 -0800
 > >Subject: Re: talking bios?
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 > >This project reminds me of the old Speaqualizer (possibly spelled
 > >wrong) speech synthesizer.  The Speaqualizer was all hardware, so it
 > >was capable of reading everything that showed up on a text screen,