talking bios?

[Gregory Nowak]

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



> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid at sunset.net
>To: igueths at comcast.net,"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:49:08 -0800
>Subject: Re: talking bios?

>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,
>including all prompts and info which showed up before the OS was
>loaded.  This new project sounds promising--I hope it goes well.  The
>project seems to have some serious support, so I think I will keep
>up with it as time allows.  Thanks, and have a _great_ day!