From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pony.its.uwo.ca([129.100.2.63]) (1537 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:45:58 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from wcgtule107.wcg.williams.com (cstulas1.wcgadv.com [151.142.255.20] (may be forged)) by pony.its.uwo.ca (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e85Kk1G25220 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:46:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wcgtule107.wcg.williams.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:37:40 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Klarich, Terry" To: "'speakup@braille.uwo.ca'" Subject: Voice Synthesizers Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:56:01 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" List-Id: Hello all: Soon, I will be buying a new voice synthesizer. I would like an external serial device for it's flexibility. Presently, it is a toss up between the dectalk express and the acsent. If anyone has an opinion concerning serial voice synthesizers, I would like to hear it. I personally like the dectalk express; but, it doesn't seem very well made. And, DEC used those rj 45 connectors with the tab offset. I have no idea why DEC did this. This type of connecter is on most of their terminal servers, printers and other serial devices. DEC are the only one's who use this connector. I guess this is why they can charge $15 for a cable. Terry