talking bios?

[Sean McMahon]

It didn't catch on for me back then because you couldn't get it to echo
words as you typed them.  This is because at the time ibm clone didn't mean
exactly supported all ibm functionality.  My machine at the time was a
packart-bell and ours at school were ibms which supported word echo fine.
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid at sunset.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: talking bios?


> 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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