The hideous Dectalk 5.0

[Jayson Smith]

By 'original' do you mean version 4.2 or the old, old DTC01?
I've never seen one of those!
Jayson.

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From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: The hideous Dectalk 5.0


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> there's still nothing that sounds as good as the original
> dectalk...and I got mine for the same price you'd pay for the
> software.
> On
> Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 09:12:43AM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:18:14AM EST, Adam Myrow wrote:
> > > Is it just me, or is the Dectalk software 5.0 the worst-sounding
software
> > > synthesizer ever produced?  I think between Fonix and Force Computing,
> > > they've absolutely ruined the Dectalk.  This thing sounds like it's
got
> > > tape over its mouth, and 4.61 sounded like it was intoxicated.  Not
only
> > > that, the installer bombs out with an "unexpected end-of-file" error.
It
> > > still seems to work, however.  I urge anybody who is considering this
> > > product to think again!  I'd rather listen to Flite's monotonous
voice.
> > > At least it's clear.  It's not worth $50.  It isn't worth $0.01!  When
I
> > > pay for software, I expect quality.  I hope the USB Dectalk that
everybody
> > > talks about won't sound like this.
> >
> > On the other hand, DECtalk 5 is much more responsive than 4.61 was, so
on that
> > note, I would rather use 5. However I do agree that it certainly is not
the
> > best sounding DECtalk I have heard.
> >
> > Luke
> >
> >
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