[DECtalk] Interesting message about version of DECtalk used in USB
Brandon Misch
bmisch2002 at gmail.com
Sat May 21 22:39:11 EDT 2011
i guess no pci version was thought of since the time of that message.
On May 21, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While going through old sent mail last night, I found a forward about the at
> the time brand new DECtalk USB. This message is from March or April of 2004.
> I've excerpted a bit of it I thought might be interesting.
>
> Naturally, I was curious, and called Access solutions themselves to ask
> about this thing. I had a lengthy conversation with Mike and talked about
> dectalks, doubletalks, and Trippletalks. Yes, the Death of the dectalk was
> sent out a year ago last October. Dectalk Express, and PC2, despite what
> fonix says, are all dead. Naturally the Dectalk USB, as it will be called,
> waa made. The first thing I asked was about compatibility with the old
> Dectalks. He said that was esential to this prodects sails. All oDectalk
> USB's can run as expresses using the serial moad. The next thing I asked
> was about sound quality, and he told me that Dectalk 5.0 was originally to
> be used, but he raised a hole bunch of hell reguarding that. They switched
> him over to dectalk 4.62's sound quality, and Still hell was raised. He
> wants this to sound as otrue to the Dectalk 4.1and 4.2CD Versions, the
> Dextalk expresses we all know. A few bugs were found in the coad, so this
> will be a dectalk 5.0, but with Dectalk 4.2CD sound. This wouldn't have
> gone forword without that. I also asked about responsiveness. He said that
> this has 7-times more processign power, which means that it is more
> responsive than Dectalk ever was, and of corse, at less of a price. The
> name of the PCI version is still up in the air, but I suggested Dectalk PC3.
> A PCI version will happen very soon. Keep checking thw access solutions web
> sight at www.axsol.com for more details, and he assured me that demos of
> this speach system will be coming along.
>
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