[DECtalk] reading edge with dectalk 1992
Karen Lewellen
klewellen at shellworld.net
Sat Jan 28 00:36:01 EST 2023
Speaking personally?
Because I use Doctor Dennis every day, it is the standard I measure other
synthesizers by.
Have yet to find anything that comes close sadly enough.
Kare
On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Blake Roberts via Dectalk wrote:
> I never used a Reading Edge. However, this subject brings back my first
> memory of hearing DECTalk speak.
>
>
> In elementary school, I and other blind students went to the house of a
> gentleman who had a Kurzweil reading machine with DECTalk in it. I don't
> remember much about that experience several decades later except being amazed
> by how realistic the DECTalk voice sounded. I think the gentleman was using
> Perfect Paul or Beautiful Betty. When I first used a DECTalk 4.3 speak window
> early in the 21st century, my first thought was: "This is the voice I heard
> on that guy's Kurzweil reading machine when I was in elementary school."
>
>
> It has been fun for me to share tonight with everyone on-list about my TTS
> memories.
>
> Blake
>
>
> On 1/27/2023 9:17 PM, Brandon Misch wrote:
>> I never had one but used one at my school years ago around 2002-2003.
>> I saw one at a convention around 1996. They were great for their time.
>>
>> On 1/27/23, Mike <underthetoaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Jeeze that's a lot. Somehow my school got one for me at that time and
>> > it was almost completely useless anyway because the OCR was horrible.
>> >
>> > On 1/27/23, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I was right? The reading edge with decTalk made in 1992 was around
>> > > $6000.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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