:talk-bounces+joseph.norton=gmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On
Behalf Of Kevin Minor via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 5:08 PM
To: Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: RE: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers
Hi.
I know I'm late in this thread, but I'd like to add my
Dave ; Window-Eyes Discussion List ; Kevin Minor
Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers
Well, would be a great thing for the VFO team, to get their resources
together and make such a thing possible. Let's get a box that you
connect to the external display connector on t
: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 5:15 PM
To: Kevin Minor ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers
Hi Kevin,
So there was a way to get to the BIOS.Since my first PC back in the
mid 80's I've wanted to be able to get in there to ma
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On Behalf Of David via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 6:14 PM
To: Dave ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
; Kevin Minor
Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers
Well, would be a great thing for the VFO team, to get their res
Well, would be a great thing for the VFO team, to get their resources
together and make such a thing possible. Let's get a box that you
connect to the external display connector on the back of your computer.
Let the box have something like 4, or even 8 GB of RAM, enough to hold
your screen read
Hi Kevin,
So there was a way to get to the BIOS.Since my first PC back in the
mid 80's I've wanted to be able to get in there to make changes. Still
would in fact.
Would be very nice to Update, Fix, and Repair my own Hardware, all with
Speech.
Grumpy Dave
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Dave
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Hi.
I know I'm late in this thread, but I'd like to add my own experience with
screen readers.
My first computer with speech was an Apple II E with the Echo II board and
software from Street Electronics. I got that for my graduation from high
school. I remember the speech package costing $15
From: David Goldfield via Talk Sent:
Friday, October 21, 2016 6:27 PM To: Larry Higgins ; Window-Eyes
Discussion List Subject: 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
Subject: 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 possi
, 2016 9:49 PM
To: Window Eyes
Subject: 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, i
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
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 o
e- From: Neville via Talk
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 9:49 PM
> To: Window Eyes
> Subject: 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
David Holladay and Caryn Navy are alive and well and work for Duxbury
Systems.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-Original Message-
From: Neville via Talk
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 9:49 PM
To: Window Eyes
Subject: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers
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 if
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
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 pro
I remember There was Vert, and Vert Plus, and Vert Plus sounded better.
Pam.
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Huber via Talk
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 11:38 AM
To: Donald L. Roberts ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers
Hi THere!
My first synthesizer was a very old Type & Talk. There was only one
control for volume rate and pitch. There was no speaker so I had to use
headphones. The worst thing about it was it's awfdul sound. I finally
graduated to an Accent SA which I use for many years in colledge as we
These memories are great.
Well persnally I used first of all a little program at college called
word star then went on to word perfect.
Screen reader wise, I used to have an apollo synth with Hal.
Then when I got my own pc, I had good old vocal eyes, and when I went
to windows, went straight
Hi Donald:
I used Vert Plus when I was working for a non-proffit agency in the
late 1980s. I was training at the time and one of my clients said
that it sounded like an old guy with a cigar in his mouth.
Kevin Huber
On 10/19/16, Donald L. Roberts via Talk wrote:
> I am wondering whether I am
Original Message- From: Larry Higgins via Talk
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 8:56 AM
To: Don H ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers
OK folks, this question strays slightly off the precise topic a smidgen,
but here goes.
Some o
I am wondering whether I am the only list member who began with Vert
Plus and later used both Flipper and Tiny Talk?
Don Roberts
On 10/18/2016 6:36 PM, Dave via Talk wrote:
Hello,
Some of you are bringing up Screen Readers I have never heard of, and I
was there back in those early DOS days
Hi:
Just to add to this thread, My first screen reader was a package
called Freedom1 from a company called Interface Systems International
and I used the Votrax PSS as my speech synthesizer.
The Freedom1 package came with a tutorial on a casset tape by someone
from Interface Systems International.
H via Talk
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 7:37 AM
To: Dave ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers
My first screen reader was called Enable Reader and my syn was a Votrax
PSS if I remember right. I also remember paying $500 for a 20 Meg
Hi:
The thing that made me come to that conclusion was a tape Doug made
for TSI (TeleSensory Systems, Inc.) about their screen-reader called
Vert Plus was called Valedictory Speech. In the tape, Doug had Vert
Plus (using the Prose 4000) speech synthesizer sounding as if he was
giving a valedictor
-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers
OK folks, this question strays slightly off the precise topic a smidgen,
but here goes.
Some of you may have been acquainted with the intro to DOS tapes made
by Doug Wakefield. I thought these presentations were
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Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 8:57 AM
To: Don H ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers
OK folks, this question strays slightly off the precise topic a smidgen, but
here goes
afford to sound a little smug.
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From: Talk
[mailto:talk-bounces+joseph.norton=gmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On
Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 8:57 AM
To: Don H ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen
OK folks, this question strays slightly off the precise topic a smidgen,
but here goes.
Some of you may have been acquainted with the intro to DOS tapes made
by Doug Wakefield. I thought these presentations were quite good at the
time. But what I would like to know to this day is just what sy
My first screen reader was called Enable Reader and my syn was a Votrax
PSS if I remember right. I also remember paying $500 for a 20 Meg
internal hard drive so I did not have to use 5 1/4 floppy disks to run
the machine. Of course that was a DOS machine
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Hello,
Some of you are bringing up Screen Readers I have never heard of, and I
was there back in those early DOS days.
I started out in the mid 1980's with a Tandy TRS 80 with something
called TRSDOS I can't recall the name of the Screen Reader, but it was
basic, but for then, it was way better
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