carol as a user of 2 software synths, keynote and dec talk access 32, i can
tell you that if i was buying a hardward synth, it would be external and cheap,
like the spirit from artic that cost 300 dollars but it emulates an accent so
it shall work down the road in n t.
software speech provides great quality voice while the cheaper synth provides
access in all enviroments.
if i had to buy internal i would also combine double talk with access 32.
the only reason for buying internal is if i did not have a irq available in the
system.
reason for combineing access 32 with double talk is that access 32 shall work
in windows n t as well.
now if i where poor, i would go software only and with out a doubt the synth i
bought would be the keynote software synth, also called multmedia.
by the way it is extremely stable in every respect, and for the last month it
is all i am using.
reason being i pulled my hardware synth out of old system to install in new
system.
no problems, since they released their second version or upgrade, really was
bug patches about 6 months back.
also if the user uses a dos screen reader that supports the keynote soft synth
then dos box access is still possible.
so keynote is the best software synth that i have used in the win 9 x
enviroment, of course their are many i have not used
one other thing, if keynote does run into a problem its a good thang jfw
provides a back up software synth.
the only down side to the keynote is that it does not work in win n t.
bill
At 01:09 PM 1/22/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>Well, I don't like the idea of internal software synths only. I think
>there's rather more work to be done before I'd be entirely happy without my
>Dectalk Express. Even the best of the software synths are not so stable
>(certainly with 95) and I still like nipping to DOS now and again. I guess
>if I move to NT that won't be an option anyway.
>
>I guess what I really want to say is that I still feel we should be
>encouraging HJ and makers of synthersizers to continue to make improvements
>here as the software synths are just not totally up to it yet.
>
>
>--
>Carol Pearson
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>At 11:00 22/01/99 +1100, Sean Murphy wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I will answer your two questions in the quoted message below. My
>>comments are preceded by SM:.
>>
>>>>> "Tim Culhane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 21/January/1999 10:40pm >>>
>>What is the reason for this?
>>SM: If you mean why internal synths will have a short life spand in
>>computerrs, the answer is very simple. NT at this point of time does
>>not have any ssill drivers. Until Arkenstone brings out NT drivers,
>>you wil not get your Internal synths to work. Yes, you could sya that
>>JFW or any other screen reader should develop their own drivers. But
>>they will not do so because new computers will not have any ISA slots
>>in them. ISA slots are being phased out. Also software synthesizers
>>are becoming more common and cost less. Using Australian prices, the
>>cost of a Dectalk PC or Express is around the $1500 and the Dectalk
>>Access 32 is about $400 and if you buy a cheap sound card, you are
>>looking about $100. A total of $500, which means I save $1000. In
>>other words, the main stream market is seeing the advantages of
>>software speech and this will completely change the way that synths
>>are sold.
>>
>>Will there be an alternative?
>>SM: Software synths are the replacement.
>>
>>Regards
>>Sean.
>>-
>>Visit the jfw ml web page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~nallan/jfw
>>
>
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