ancient speech synthesizers

[Marcel Oats]

That was the completely hardware synth from NFB wasn't it?  I had 
someone demo it to us once, and immediately thought of having 
something like that now, to help me change settings in the damn 
bios.  That'd be a valid reason for something like that for 
myself.  I'd imagine that it would still be expensive however.  It's 
nice to think about the possibilities.  The other think we could 
think about, are why companies such as Asus have not made a piece of windows
software that is able to read the bios parameter block on their 
boards, and allow the user to change them, in a nice accessible 
interface.  So long as the programme running on the Pc was in text 
mode, the Speaqualizer
would work.

Marcel
At 07:59 Ay M 12/10/2006, you wrote:
>Has anybody used a Speaqualizer on a Linux machine?  I lack the knowhow to
>do it, but it seems like a good idea to develop a modernized version of that
>gismo for use with Linux--say, for one thing, usable via a USB port.  I know
>the Speaqualizer was something like eight hundred bucks, but I wonder if
>such a device could be enormously cheaper now.  Since I'm supposing for the
>moment that its main purpose would be to make an unmodified Linux version
>usable long enough to install it and usable with Speakup, or to give
>primitive speech output long enough to use Emacspeak, I doubt anybody'd want
>to pay a lot for it.
>
>My ignorance on this subject is vast.  Still, I thought it worth raising the
>matter regarding the general topic of ancient speech synthesizers.
>
>Propaine
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
>To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review
>system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:19 AM
>Subject: Re: ancient speech synthesizers
>
>
> > If you're running linux in character mode, you can use an older machine
> > especially if you have a hardware synth.
> >
> > A friend of mine gave me a  ISA doubletalk a couple of months ago.  It's
> > really nice for me because I run linux on a P3/450. But he just gave it to
> > me because he had no use for it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
><speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: ancient speech synthesizers
> >
> >
> > > So you are using an older motherboard.
> > > I guess there is still one made that has an ISA slot, but it is probably
> > > low-end, even though it is new.
> > > I don't remember the brand.
> > > Glenn
> > > ----- Original Message -----
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> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
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> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:58 PM
> > > Subject: Re: ancient speech synthesizers
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> > > No, both the doubletalk pc and the accent pc are isa synths, though
> > > like I said, this won't work with the accent since it requires a
> > > driver in config.sys.
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 06:43:11PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> > >> hmmm? how do you do that? is that pci?
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