> I've been complaining loud and long about this exact idea for over 10
> years. I'm still puzzled why no company has invented a simple hardware
> device that sits between monitor and video port to do the speech
> synthesizer work. This would guarantee that the info got to the device,
> and no special tricks would be necessary to ensure data passed through
> your device. Apparently, the companies involved don't agree with me, and
> have even gone so far as to tell me it wouldn't work <sigh> So, it beats
> me why nobody would make something like this, especially since I've been
> yelling about this exact thing (and getting others to yell too) since 1986
> when I got my rfrst computer that had speech on it.
I think the companies were saying this (it's impossible) because
the video signal exiting out the video port is an analogue signal, not
digital, which would mean you'd need to incorporate some kind of
Character Recognitian technology. Now the requirements for this
unit shouldn't need to be as intensive as the CR found in modern
scanners (as it's all easily recognized printed text) but you'd need
to have it running in real-time and I don't know how fast current CR
runs at. IMHO, it would have been impossible back in '86 to do
this, now a days in might be a little expensive, but possible.
John Fielding
Survivor of Windows NT 4.0 Workstation on a 486dx2/66,
16megs RAM, 200meg hard drive for 6 months.
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