talking bios?

[Ralph W. Reid]

As I recall, the Speaqualizer plugged into a standard ISA slot, and
copied video signals from the ISA bus.  I believe a little, external
control box was used for reviewing the screen and such.  I was told
that its weakest point was its not-so-great speech quality.  I never
owned one myself, but it was high on my wish list for a while.  It
seemed like a good idea, and I am surprised it did not catch on more
than it did.

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:13:27PM -0800, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 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!
> 
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