Hi Thomas,
The first synthesized speech that I ever heard was on my Atari 800 XL home
computer. There was a software package named Sams. It was not really a screen
reader, but it would try to say anything that you typed in. You know the old
PC before sound cards only had a mono channel speaker, but the Atari 800 like
the Commodore 64 had a four channel sound mixer. So it could do better game
sounds and do synthesized speech. Sams sure was fun to play with. It really
would try to pronounce anything. None of the spelling it stuff if it didn't
know how to say it.
My first screen reader was Jaws for dos version 1.0 with an Accent stand alone
synthesizer.
It is really weird that everyone has there own likes, dislikes and can
understand different speech better or worse. Personally I never liked the
DecTalk and am not crazy about Eloquence. I did like the Accent S A and am
very happy with my USB Triple Talk. But my favorite voices to use while
playing games is AT&T Lauren and AT&T Charles. The Neo Speech voices are ok,
but Scan Soft Tom to me is one of the worst sounding sapi5 voices. Well after
the free Microsoft ones that is. <grin>
BFN
Jim
The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
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