oh man you guys are going and going. I see I will have to compete with you guys. Lets see I'm afraid you beat me on most things. the first talking unit I had was running dos 5.0 ms with wordperfect 5.1 keysoft 1.3 and mastertouch 1.32 I used keynote gold. Before the unit kicked the bucket I had it semi upgraded to dos 6.22 with qemm 97 and norton utilities 8. Ok it was not much of an improvement but I did make the best of it. The first windows synth I had was a gemini which was good till it died on me and I got orpheus, On second thought I'd would have liked a juno rather than an actual other external synth. I'm still mad that I was not given an internal hardware synth as at that time there were still synths of these made. I could have continued running keysoft and mt for a few years more. The first software speech unit I delt with was one of the old bbc units. I also have experience with a c64 with lemmings and an apple lc1 lc2 and lc3 as well as perfomer, power pc and the old 2gs. Not actualy working on them but running them. starting them up. the 5.25 drive sounded like a machine gun. The 3.5 drive sounded like the borg. I have also seen the old acorn. Now I think the only person that can beat me is ralph that manages the local blind school here in auckland as he has actually done assembly and binary coding literally and seen a mainframe and an actual ibm not a compatible unit maybe earlier I never found out what his extent of the old tech he saw was. At 09:37 a.m. 16/01/2008, you wrote: >Hi Stefen, >All I can say is I go way back before Jaws for Dos was even invented. My >first speech synth was an echo for an Apple 2-E, and the text games of >the mid 80's era were fun. >Anyway, I can remember the days when I had to use Jaws without such a >thing as a software synth. In high school I had to carry around a 486 >laptop with a dectalk express in my backpack which I plugged in after I >got the laptop all setup on a table in the class room, and it was not a >very portible setup. In fact, most of the time rather than bringing my >Dectalk to school I turned on my Braille N Speak and ran it through >speechbox mode with JFD and JFW 1.x. That was aweful speech! > >Stefen Hudson wrote: >> Wow. 3.2? I started with 3.5. The funny thing about that version of >> Eloquence was it sounded like it had a sinus problem compared to the newer >> versions. I've tried using the real speech voices that came with JAWS9 and >> had some trouble understanding them. They do sound a bit more natural, but >> sometimes they have this warble effect when they say certain words or >> phraises, and sometimes they don't say the entire word. >> > > >--- >Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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