RE: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

-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 <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> Subject: RE: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers Hi. I know I'm late in this thread, b

Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

; 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 the back

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: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 5:15 PM To: Kevin Minor <kmino...@outlook.com>; Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> 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

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cgrabowski=aisquared@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of David via Talk Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 6:14 PM To: Dave <dlh...@centurylink.net>; Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com>; Kevin Minor <kmino...@outlook.com> Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen

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 the back of your computer. Let the box have something like 4, or even 8 GB of RAM, enough to hold your screen

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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 -- Dave

RE: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

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

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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 cool if someone could digitize them

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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 possible that I

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A typewriter fitted with speech? Come again? I just knew about regular typewriters, and electric typwriters, and those electronic ones that had word processors in them, but I never heard of them with speech. Pam. -Original Message- From: Neville via Talk Sent: Friday, October 21,

Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

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

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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

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If anyone would like to read an archive of the newsletters from Raised Dot Computing, David and Caryn's former company, you can take a long walk down memory lane at http://personalpages.tds.net/~ti51/rdcnews.htm David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist Feel free to visit my

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 possible that I might have one of his tutorials, although it was a Braille

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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

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

RE: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

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

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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: >

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: 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 of you may have been acquainted

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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

Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

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

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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

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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

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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 quite

Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 8:57 AM To: Don H <lmdd...@comcast.net>; Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> Subject: Re: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers OK folks, this question str

RE: Reminiscing about old Screen Readers and Synthesizers

ts.window-eyes.com> 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 wer

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 quite good at the time. But what I would like to know to this day is just what

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 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