[DECtalk] DecTalk newbie

[Tony Baechler]

Hi.  OK, sorry for misunderstanding you.  Yes, I'm sure you are correct 
that no early speech synthesizer would support CD quality sample 
rates.  There would be no reason.  Probably the DEC-Talk had the highest 
sampling rate of any at the time.  I know that the new SAPI 5 voices do 
support much higher sampling rates because I played with them when they 
came out.

Now I'm curious about something.  What was the sample rate of the Echo 
synthesizers?  I would think it was rather low because of what it had to 
work with.  I think I read in a manual that it was only 8,000 HZ but I 
would have to find it again.  I think it would obviously be 8-bit audio 
since that's all the computers would support.  I used an Echo GP for the PC 
many years ago and that could have been 16-bit audio.  I don't have specs 
for the Echo PC/GP but that would be interesting.