I don't know, I just hated the BNS voice. Maybe it's because the Echo was the first synthe I ever heard, so I've got a soft spot for it. But the BNS' voice just irritated the heck out of me. Come to think of it so does the Keynote voice, wich is one reason I don't use the Braille Note. I particularly hated it when playing some of the games you could get for the BNS. I remember there was a Chess game and a Blackjack game, but I hated them because of the voice. Granted it was sort of cool at first but after a while it just got on my nerves. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Views On Games was Out of the games dimension
> Hi Bryan, > Are you kidding? I hated the Echo's voice. I would take Braille N Speak > voice over Echo any day. Though, my opinion might be based on the fact I > spent a lot of time after going blind using a Braille N Speak. It was > like a part of me all through school and college. > You see, when I first started losing my vision the teachers first put me > on the braille writer. I expressed almost from the beginning I wanted to > use a computer instead of this clunky, metal, old contraption. They of > course told me I needed to use it to learn braille and become a braille > user. Yada, yada, yada. > Well, finally I managed to get my way and the school provided me with a > new device called a braille and Speak from Blazie Engineering. I used > the school's for a while, and got my local Lion's club to see how > wonderful a device it was so they baught me one for school and hopefully > college. After I got my own BNS it went everywhere with me. On the bus, > to school, to the store, on vacations, you name it. It was almost like > borg implanted to my person, and I didn't give it up until I managed to > get a laptop with JFW and Eloquence on it around 1998 or so. > > Bryan wrote: >> The Echo was also my first synthe Then came JFD with a Braille 'N Speak >> providing speech. The BNS was probably even worse than the Echo in terms >> of >> speech quality. >> Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > > > --- > 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] > --- 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]
