Memories: college with typewriter and sighted reader cuz they'd always change books the day of class! Keyword, dec talk, deck talk express, OOO My before JAWS back in Dbase ii and so on. 1987 I started here at EPA with a keynote 32K & a Braille and Print long before JAWS. I'll keep JAWS thanks! Openbook is priceless.... when it wants to be LOL
Bobby and Prince -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 2:56 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: RE: DEC-TALK Express Service 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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