Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

Lynette, I never saw those old Keynotes but I have a friend who had one in the 1980s and she really loved it. I remember that she told me the keyboard had a wonderful feel. On one of the earlier newsletters from Raised Dot Computing a customer submitted a review of the Keynote and gave it high

Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

My first computer was a Keynote, which was all of 40k. Evidently there were some Epson (I think) laptops which never took off, so Humanware acquired them and fitted them with speech and their own software. You could write with it (approximately 14 pages) and there was a little microprinter

Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

If anyone would like to read an archive of the newsletters from Raised Dot Computing, David and Caryn's former company, you can take a long walk down memory lane at http://personalpages.tds.net/~ti51/rdcnews.htm David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist Feel free to visit my

Re: speech synthesizers

I agree; that was a fascinating BBC program. In 1987 or 1988, a special issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America had the article about the history of speech synthesis, written by Dennis Klatt. This magazine, as was sometimes done back then, contained an Eva-Tone flexible disc

RE: itunes need help in adding an app on ipod touch 6

Hi Sue, I have one of those gadgets, but my question is this: why don't you simply search for the app on your iPod Touch using the App Store? This is much easier than trying to do it from within iTunes. Hth, Rod -Original Message- From: Talk

RE: speech synthesizers

Hi David, Thanks very much for this wonderful documentary link. All the best, Rod -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of David Goldfield via Talk Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 9:37 PM To: Window-Eyes Discussion

RE: what address do you send messages if you want to post to the scripting list?

Hi Dennis, You can manage a subscription to the scripting list here: http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com hth, Rod -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Long via Talk Sent:

Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

Hi, My first introduction into the World of screen readers and computers was with an Apple 2E and Braille Edit back in 1984. The speech syn was an Echo from Streets Electronics. By today's standards, it was primitive but was a vast improvement on what went before. i.e. Just a typewriter and

Re: speech synthesizers

I just found this fascinating documentary on Youtube. It's called Klat's Last Tapes: a History of Speech Synthesis. It's amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=097K1uMIPyQ David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist Feel free to visit my Web site WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info On

Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

I remember Doug's tapes but can't quite hear that voice clearly enough to identify it. It would be quite cool if someone could digitize them, if any exist but Doug may or may not have concerns about that. It is remotely possible that I might have one of his tutorials, although it was a Braille

Re: speech synthesizers

Ah, you answered a question I just asked. So, Fred is a Klat variant, so to speak? David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist Feel free to visit my Web site WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info On 10/19/2016 8:57 AM, Chris Grabowski via Talk wrote: > You can, sort of, its name is Fred. > > >

Re: mega dots

if you still have it could you send it to me? maybe email it? then I can play with it in talking dos box. On 10/21/2016 8:40 PM, he...@juno.com wrote: Hi, I have a copy of Hot Dots which I still use in a DOS shell. I think it came out befor MMega dots On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:12:36 -0400

Re: speech synthesizers

Oh, as an aside are there any recordings of Dennis Klat? Is he still around? David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist Feel free to visit my Web site WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info On 10/19/2016 9:07 AM, Steve Clower via Talk wrote: > To add to this, Dennis Klatt invented the Klat-Talk

Re: speech synthesizers

Steve, Thank you for this fascinating bit of info. Is the Fred voice from Apple derived from Klat-talk, as it sure does sound remarkably like one of the Dec-talk voices. I guess I now know why the primary voice was called Dennis. David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist Feel

Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

Wow, haven't thought about Doug Wakefield for many years. He provided a great service to the blindness community, not only from his tutorials but for his excellent Newsbits magazine. While it wouldn't be practical producing a monthly computer magazine due to the amount of podcasts and other

Re: mega dots

Hi, I have a copy of Hot Dots which I still use in a DOS shell. I think it came out befor MMega dots On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:12:36 -0400 Josh Kennedy via Talk writes: > does anyone have a full copy of mega dots and also keynote gold > multimedia that i could use

RE: "Read," "Unread," "Attachment" Stopped with Outlook 2007

Hi, did you get your problem resolved? I have not and just relabeled some of the graphics -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+jim=blindsea@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Ed Culpepper via Talk Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 12:10 PM To: 'Chris Grabowski';

speaking keyboard commands

I remember listening to a tutorial or webinar where I was shown how to make Window-eyes speak "send/receive mail" when I press control m in Outlook but I can't remember where to go to enable this; can anyone help? Alison ___ Any views or opinions

AVG Users

I would appreciate your helping me. I was thinking of purchasing AVG, but I am so confused on the order page, that I didn’t press the Continue button, but backed out before checkout. I couldn’t tell what my final total would be. There were all these clickables. Write me off list. Thanks.

mega dots

does anyone have a full copy of mega dots and also keynote gold multimedia that i could use inside of talking dos box since mega dots and keynote multimedia are no longer supported? and also keysoft gold for win3.1? I love playing with the old stuff inside my accessible talking dos box. --

history of screen readers

I wonder why vocal eyes demo won't work in talking dosbox with braille n speak driver using or talking through NVDA? if you need the link for talking dosbox it is https://www.sendspace.com/file/pk2ni7 -- mozilla thunderbird email client ___ Any

Re: A Little Morality tale: It's Not Always Microsoft's Fault!

hello i found your message about station playlist and i have a simular problem, though i am using windows 7. how did you find out that toolkit was not working? i don't know if my gw toolkit works properly. and of course: how do i let it work again? aad On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:58:46 + "Crabb,

RE: Finding File attachments in Becky?

Hi, This should help: http://media.blubrry.com/assistivetech/p/www.mysticaccesspodcast.com/audio/mp33becky2.mp3 -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+cgrabowski=aisquared@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dave via Talk Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 3:02 PM To: A I

itunes need help in adding an app on ipod touch 6

Hello. I could use some help in adding an app on my iPod touch 6 have not done this for a while but ever since the update of iTunes think it was back in September it has been difficult to add apps to my iPod touch, I go about looking for the iPod button hit space bar and the iPod area opens up

what address do you send messages if you want to post to the scripting list?

Hi, I have a program I would like to have someone possibly write scripts for if anyone is interested contact me. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For

Finding File attachments in Becky?

Hello, I use Becky for my Email. Had someone send me a File attachment the other day, but I cannot find which folder it is located. I have a folder called Becky, under Documents, but I see no attachment in this folder. Would someone who knows, tell me where I might find attachments? Oh, and

Re: history of window eyes

Hi there! I actually did like Word Perfect for DOS. I used it in colledge to write all my term papers and someone there actually created a macro for setting up the papers in the proper format. When I finally went to windows, 'windows98' I had a version of Word Perfect which I used until I

Re: All software speech synthesizers stopped working?

I fixed the issue. All I had to do is, shutdown the computer and restart it and all is working as it should. -Original Message- From: Kim Lingo Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 8:06 AM To: Russ Kiehne ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: All software speech synthesizers stopped

Re: All software speech synthesizers stopped working?

I have system sounds and can play music with winamp. It’s only the softwarespeech synthesizers that won’t work. From: Loy Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 7:45 AM To: Russ Kiehne ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: All software speech synthesizers stopped working? You did not say if all

Re: All software speech synthesizers stopped working?

You did not say if all sounds were gone, if so your sound card may have gotten muted. Restart WE and that will un mute the sound card. - Original Message - From: Russ Kiehne via Talk To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 10:18 AM Subject: All software

All software speech synthesizers stopped working?

I’m running Windows 10 and all of my software speech synthesizers stopped working. How do I fix this issue? ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For

RE: history of window eyes

Hi Pam and David, Oh, yes, I remember them, and what a trip down memory lane that was. I also remember placing those commands in macros since I disliked all that key punching. (grin) Thanks for the trip, Rod -Original Message- From: Talk

Re: history of window eyes

I actually don't remember the commands you are talking about. Pam. -Original Message- From: David Goldfield via Talk Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 10:02 PM To: wohlg...@gmail.com ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: history of window eyes What I'm about to say might almost