DecTalk synths

[Jayson Smith]

One other flavor of Dectalk was that offered by the Kurzweil Personal
Reader, a reading machine sold in the late 80's/early to mid 90's.  One of
its features was that it used Dectalk for its speech synthesis and could
offer a mode called either Dectalk Input in older versions or Speech Input
in newer versions, where it could be used just like a Dectalk synthesizer.
We still have one of those things and that's exactly what we use it for.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: DecTalk synths


> The Dectalk External is a rather old synthesizer.  It is a huge box with a
> rocker switch on the front.  When it is powered up, a fan comes on, then
> it makes touch-tone noises.  Finally, it says something like "Dectalk
> version 2.8 is running."  I don't remember the version number, but it's
> something like that.  I haven't ran across one of those in years.  The
> speech sounds somewhat different from modern Dectalk synthesizers.  It's
> also extremely sluggish, taking several seconds to respond to a flush
> command.  The bottom line is that very few people probably have that old
> beast and yours is likely a Dectalk Express.  There were a few other
> external Dectalk models, but I don't think they ever saw much circulation.
>
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