OLD DAYS

[Gregory Nowak]

The newer units use a doubletalk chip. They don't use its full potential either.
Greg


On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:46:51PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> Thats what What I thought.  The newer bns and blt units have improved
> pronounciation over the echo, but the same sounding voice.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romualt.dhs.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:42 PM
> Subject: Re: OLD DAYS
> 
> 
> > The legacy bns (that's what FS likes to call them now) and the echo speech
> synth sound the same because they share the same speech chip.
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:27:28PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> > > If you can understand the Braille 'N Speak, you can understand the Echo.
> > > At least to me, they sound very similar.
> > >
> > > Yes, I remember BEX.  It had those cryptic commands like " $$c " to
> center
> > > text.  You absolutely had to put the spaces around them or they wouldn't
> > > work.  I used it with an embosser called an Ohtsuki.  Obviously made in
> > > Japan.  It was a really slow embosser that could produce both Braille
> and
> > > print, but neither was very sharp.  The Braille felt like the paper had
> > > been stepped on, and everybody said that the print was very faint like
> it
> > > needed a new ribbon even when it had a brand new one.  It wasn't a
> ribbon,
> > > but a little rubber wheel and it had holes at the end of each page to
> > > detect the end of the page.  Weird!
> > >
> > > I even used a shell account from an Apple IIGS and that was my first
> > > experience with Pine.  That's why I still use Pine even though some say
> > > Mutt is better.  It's hard to change when you've been using Pine that
> > > long.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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