The hideous Dectalk 5.0

[Alex Snow]

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the dtc01. mine has version 2.0 of the firmware dated jul/84.
Unfortunately you cant take advantage of it's phone capabilities 
unless you have access to something like an alpha or vax running vms, 
as that's the only OS I've found complete libraries for.
On Sun, Aug 08, 
2004 at 10:37:53AM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
> 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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