DECtalk software

[Keith Watson]

Geoff,

I disagree with this. He does support closed source software 
synth's right now. It's just that they have been burned to an 
EPROM and yuo had to pay close to $1000 or whatever to buy it and 
hook it up to your serial port because it has been packaged 
inside a proprietary chip that is being used to drive a speaker. 
So what's the difference if I buy the software and put it on my 
own hardware and drive my own speaker? The way I see it is that 
they have reduced the price of the Dectalk express from around 
$1300 to $50 by removing the casing and providing you with the 
binary that runs with your existing packaging. But hey, that's 
just the way I see it. 

Keith



On 03:09 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> My understanding is that Kirk is not interested in supporting a closed
> source software speech synthesiser.  Possibly harsh but there it is.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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