ancient speech synthesizers

[Willem van der Walt]

I still have my Echo GP and a Prose 4000, an isa card which had very good 
speech for its time.
The very first synthesizer I used, came with the Texis Instruments it99 
home computer.
The worst sounding synth I ever layed my ears on, was the speech coming 
from the specially adapted IBM 3279 terminal. I never worked with that 
though.
Regards, Willem


On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Reinhard Stebner wrote:

> I reasonly got read of my Votrax.  It still operated, it used a old screen
> reader called freedom.  Of course you guys remember the echos right?
> 
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> On Behalf Of Tyler Spivey
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 10:35 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: ancient speech synthesizers
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> Just out of curiosity, what have any of you used for ancient synths? I'm
> not talking the well-known ones such as accent/artic, I'm talking
> something like Votrax anything, Covox, or any ones that are strange.
> It'd be cool to get one of those, but they're probably all gone to
> history. What brought this up? Some weird speech package called Enable
> that supported some of those which appears to be from the 80's.
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