I probably could, but I brought the good unit I was using at the house and have used it here for I don't remember how long--probably 2002 or so. If I turned it back to DFB, it would probably wind up in a technology museum. This is not the original unit, but I started using this particular device in 1991; I'll bet you couldn't get a firmware update now.
-----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aidan Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 3:31 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: DEC-TALK Express Service Great, so cant you get an USB to serial adapter and connect it that way? On 15/04/2014, Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got a LightTalk at my work station, but haven't used one at home > for years now--no legacy ports. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aidan > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 1:14 PM > To: The Jaws for Windows support list. > Subject: Re: DEC-TALK Express Service > > Wel, there are good advantages to use the hardware units, I love > dubble talk and I'm so glad they stil make it. I want to get one. Its > good to take off the memory from your pc and let the synth do it, no > wunder that jaws sometimes keep quiet when it or windows freezes. At > least a hardware unit can stil speak then sometimes. I would love to > here from people who stil use or own one of the older units such as > the Apollo aksent and such. Great stuff and stil valuable. > > On 15/04/2014, Bob Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >> Boy I wish I could. I have two and can't use them. I have tried the >> dusb to ceal adaptors and just can't get them to work with windows 7 >> and Jaws. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cy >> Selfridge >> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:51 AM >> To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' >> Subject: RE: DEC-TALK Express Service >> >> Oh, lets go back to DecTalk! >> Cy >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jfw >> [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) >> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 5:57 AM >> To: The Jaws for Windows support list. >> Subject: RE: DEC-TALK Express Service >> >> I remember being surprised when Eloquence was chosen as the internal >> synthesizer in 1998. HJ had been featuring DecTalk in its training >> tapes, >> just prior to that time. >> >> Ted >> >> Ted >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Dave "Farfar" Carlson >> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 12:17 AM >> To: The Jaws for Windows support list. >> Subject: Re: DEC-TALK Express Service >> >> Adrian, >> >> Agree -- and that's why I've kept one connected to my studio computer >> all these years. >> >> Dave Carlson >> Soon-to-be Oregonian, retired, full-time Farfar, musician, and >> woodworker >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Adrian Spratt" <[email protected]> >> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 3:20 PM >> Subject: RE: DEC-TALK Express Service >> >> >> John, >> >> There's more than one Dectalk. There's a USB version that I believe >> is still on the market. I have it, and find it inadequate. There's >> also a software version that may or may not be supported still by >> JAWS -I recall posts on this subject, but not the outcome. >> >> Dectalk Express is a hardware synthesizer that doesn't rely on a PC >> sound card. I find it clearer in articulation than any other >> synthesizer I've heard, and it has at least as much responsiveness to >> commands as Eloquence. >> >> The drawback is that it hasn't been developed in at least two >> decades, having lost support when its creator, digital Equipment, was >> bought out. I believe the purchaser was Compaq, which itself has >> since been sucked into Hewlett-Packard. Dectalk doesn't handle >> foreign languages, and with Win7 I find it doesn't read foreign >> symbols in many contexts, such as online documents. >> >> Anyone accustomed to Eloquence is probably best served by that >> synthesizer because it had later-stage development, although I'm one >> who still finds its robot quality distracting. But I wish Dectalk >> Express hadn't been abandoned or that the well-intentioned USB >> developer had succeeded in capturing its responsiveness >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> john.falter >> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 4:45 PM >> To: The Jaws for Windows support list. >> Subject: Re: DEC-TALK Express Service >> >> Given the various speech synthesizers available today, what is the >> advantage of dec-talk? >> On 4/14/2014 10:57 AM, Dave Durber wrote: >>> Does anyone on the list, know of an individual or company, who >>> services DEC-TALK Express synthesizers. I found two of them in a >>> cupboard the other day and, before sending them to be recycled, I >>> would first like to find out if they can be repaired. >>> >>> If anyone can help with this enquiry, Thank you in anticipation. >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was >>> scrubbed... >>> URL: >>> <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachment >>> s >>> / >>> 20140414/40ae72ff/attachment.html> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Jfw mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com >>> >> >> >> >> --- >> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! 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