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 programs available at no cost, it would be wonderful to see
someone with his talents producing some modern-day tutorials. There are
some out there, of course. Cathy Anne Murtha certainly comes to mind and
she definitely knows her business but I believe there's room for more in
that space.
David Goldfield,
Assistive Technology Specialist
Feel free to visit my Web site
WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info
On 10/19/2016 10:50 AM, Joseph Norton via Talk wrote:
> 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 valedictory speech in front of an audience. I couldn't help
> feeling that Vert Plus sounded a little smug, as if to say, I'm
> fantastic, and, if you don't have a lot of money, you can't afford my
> excellent services. Just my feeling back then, as I knew I'd never be
> able to afford that particular speech system.
>
> Actually, come to think of it, their is a Sapi 4 synth that sounds
> just a little like the Prose. It's called TrueVoice. Maybe not quite
> as good as the Prose, but, just reminds me of it a little.
>
> On 10/19/16, Larry Higgins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes!, that is exactly how it sounded, though I never really thought of
>> it that way until you suggested it <g>.
>>
>> Thank you so much,
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