A good synth?

[Jayson Smith]

Heh.  I have a soft spot in my heart for the Echo, simply because that was
what I used on our old Apple computers for so many years!  So I got pretty
used to the sound.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: A good synth?


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> Hey no! I don't personally own a Double Talk but when I've heard them
> in the past, they began to grow on me.  Personally, I use a Speakout
> from GW Micro but first of all and very unfortunately they have
> stopped production as with so many hardware synths and second, when
> they were sold, they went for something like $695 or so.  It is/was a
> very fast and pretty easy to understand at those high speeds and best
> of all, it does *NOT* force abbreviations down your throat like so
> many of the software synths do.  I want to hear it say "M N" not
> Minisota!!!"; ever heard of Sunday Micro Systems:)?
>
> The worst synth I think I ever heard was a Type & Talk or possibly a
> votrax and the old Echo from Street Electronics was another bad one.
> At least the Echo was dirt cheap - something like $100.
>
> I think the Accents sound pretty good and you can wind them up to be
> pretty fast and you can still understand them once you're used to its
> speech quality.  Again, they aren't made any more either.  I one an
> Accent PC and it still works good but the SA model I also have just up
> and died for no reason last year.  I hadn't had it for any more than a
> year before it just up and quit so I wonder about the quality of Acent
> synths in general.  My Speakout has been used a lot for something like
> 7 years now and I've carried it around places, replaced the internal
> battery twice and I only had one incident of breakage in that whole
> period.  I sure wish more hardware synths would be built.  Thank God
> the Double Talk is still around.  The Tripple Talk is another option
> but I don't think progress has been made yet concerning the driver for
> Speakup to talk to it.  This would present another hardware synth
> option.  I still feel that hardware synths are far more responsive
> than any software thingy out there Software synths are nice for
> portability and possibly economy but that's about it.
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:01:57PM -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:
> > Are you serious? Wow, I thought DoubleTalk had to be the worst one
> > ever....that's sad that hardware synths are so bad....
> >
> > Thanks for your reply
> >
> > Take care,
> > Sina
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> > On Behalf Of nick G
> > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:32 AM
> > To: sbahram at nc.rr.com; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> > Subject: Re: A good synth?
> >
> >
> > That's as good as it gets.  Doubletalk is second only to dectalk in the
> > hardware arena in my opinion. Thanks, Nick
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com>
> > To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
> > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:05 AM
> > Subject: A good synth?
> >
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > I need a good hardware synth. My employer is willing to spend around
> > > 300 bucks or so....I need it to work with a variety of linux apps,
> > > like
> > SpeakUP
> > > for sure, and possibly EmacSpeak as well. Also anything else that uses
> > > a hardware synth if that's possible.
> > >
> > > What's a good one people? In my opinion the DoubleTalk's quality is
> > > just
> > > *shutter* but if that's the best for that price range, I guess I'll
have
> > to
> > > go with that.
> > >
> > > Thank you all for any replies.
> > >
> > > Take care,
> > > Sina
> > >
> > >
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