[DECtalk] different hardware dectalk versions 1980s through 1990s
joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 19:56:40 EST 2023
Hi
Also I have been reading old screen reader manuals. I remember when I was a
young child in the early 1990s, I saw that the screen readers I used
supported stuff like:
- Sounding Board and Speak-Out by GW Micro, Inc.
- All Accent boards by Aicom Corporation
- All artic boards compatible with SONIX.COM and TTS.COM and the
TransPort by Artic Technologies
- Apollo I by Dolphin Systems
- Braille 'n Speak and Type 'n Speak by Blazie Engineering
- DECtalk by Digital Equipment Corporation
- MultiVoice and Portable DECtalk by The Childrens Hospital
- DECtalk PC and DECtalk Express by Digital Equipment Corporation
- Echo PC and GP by Street Electronics
- Internal ECHO PCII, PC+, MC and 1000 by Street Electronics
- DoubleTalk PC & LT by RC Systems
- All Keynote synthesizers by PulseData
- Audapter by Personal Data Systems
- ASP by Automated Speech Functions
- Personal Speech System versions A and B by Votrax
- Prose 4000 by Speech Plus Incorporated
- LiteTalk by Microtalk
- Reading Edge by Xerox & Digital
- VoiceCard by PulseData
- Votalker by Votrax
Well I thought that decTalk, multiVoice, and reading edge and that each
decTalk version had its own distinct voice and sound. I thought they were
each their own thing. It's amazing the old screen readers supported 7 or 8
different versions of dectalk! Even humanware sold decTalk along with their
keynote products, and decTalk worked with Humanware's keysoft application
suite. And window-bridge let you use text-assist in ms-dos, and text-assist
was just decTalk in a sound blaster card.
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