ancient speech synthesizers

[Richard Villa]

I still have a working Votrex.  Well, it was working the last time I had it 
plugged in to a system about 15 years ago.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm at pcdesk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:20 AM
Subject: Re: ancient speech synthesizers


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> For the record, I don't find that tooooo strange. I think it would be
> fassinating to hear the speach of some of these. Hey, would people maybe
> be interested in having an archive of various speach synthesizers
> reading the same passage so they can be analyzed and stuff? Both old and
> new synths of course.
>
> Tyler Spivey wrote:
>> 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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