Hi,
Yes the old screen readers. My first taste was the Radio Shack
synthesizer in which you had to do everything for speaking, for all was
phonetic.
I had a coworker make the interface and I wrote a dictionary using the
MSDos assembly language
Then when getting my first DOS computer I wrote a screen reader program
using the Macro Assembly language which is the demos below.
The sad part I was given a Dectalk box/synthesizer from the state of New
York, but no screen reader program, go figure?
The Dectalk synthesizer you have to send all data over a com port.
So my first Star Trek game was written for this
The voice you here is the original Dectalk synthesizer which came in a
large box that was designed to either have the screen display on top or the
tower computer box.
Bruce
I was found out by another reporter who was disabled himself and wanted
to promote the disabled:
Videos:
Give Thanks:
Binghamton New York: (WBNG Channel 12)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiA8_IZR7O0
Not Moping Around:
Channel 3 Syracuse: (WSYR 3 Christmas)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjrOR4WeY3U
Screen Reader Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2LyRC99Qx0
Part 2 Of Screen Reader Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUy8c1jTt9k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bzeYi0PwE0
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 6:51 PM
Subject: Screen Reader History
I got my first IBM clone (256K of RAM) at this time in 1985, and was running
Screen-Talk before Computer Aids Corporation added the Prokey macros. A SET
file was about 128 bytes long, and I edited some of them with Edlin for
better compatibility with my Votrax Personal Speech System. Many times I'm
amazed that this Windows stuff works at all.
Windows 3.1 came out in 1990, and the first screen reader for Windows was
OutSpoken, which was first demonstrated in July of 1992. Window-Eyes for
Windows 3.1 came out in 1995, and it could first run Windows 95 in 1997.
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Butch Bussen via Talk
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 2:49 PM
To: Pamela Dominguez ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: A new feature in Internet Explorer
Such memories, got my first Apple 2 e in 1983. Anyone remember file
talk? Got an ibm clone in 85 and ran screen talk with prokey.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.
On Sun, 2
Aug 2015, Pamela Dominguez via Talk wrote:
> I started out with artic vision, and for a short time, I had a computer
> that I was supposed to get if I got a job that had vocal eyes on it. But
> I was so used to the Artic that I didn't like the vocal eyes. Yes,
> diskettes, the five inch soft ones and the 3.5-inch ones. Somewhere, I
> still have them! Pam.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Thomas N. Chan via Talk
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 4:12 AM
> To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'
> Subject: RE: A new feature in Internet Explorer
>
> I also started during the 90s when vocal-eyes was the king of dos,
> wordperfect.... let's see, are we talking about diskettes here? lol....
> This is really back from the past
>
>
> --------------------
> regards
> Thomas N. Chan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Talk
> [mailto:talk-bounces+thomas.nchan=gmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On
> Behalf
> Of Tom Kingston via Talk
> Sent: Sunday, 2 August 2015 8:12 AM
> To: gary melconian; Window-Eyes Discussion List
> Subject: Re: A new feature in Internet Explorer
>
> You might want to check your timeline. 25 years ago I was using GW
> Micro's VocalEyes on DOS and there was no such thing as Windows.
>
> Sheesh! Now I suddenly feel old. Thanks a bunch. (grin)
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 8/1/2015 7:40 PM, gary melconian via Talk wrote:
>> Sure we will. I appreciate the products that I have used from GW over
>> the
>> past 25 years of using windows eyes from 4.0 all the way up to 9.2.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Talk
>> [mailto:talk-bounces+gmelconian619=gmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On
>> Behalf Of Stephen Clark via Talk
>> Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2015 12:58 PM
>> To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com>
>> Subject: A new feature in Internet Explorer
>>
>> Here is a feature that they've added to Internet explorer which is
>> turned
> on
>> by default called "Do not track".
>>
>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/ie-do-not-track
>>
>> It's not perfect, but they are actually trying to improve the security
>> of
>> Windows not make it worse.
>
>> Now, can we please get back to talking about Window-eyes?
>>
>> ==Steve
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