[DECtalk] decTalk on IOS with TestFlite beta app?

[Karen Lewellen]

I have successfully replaced my reading edge, the source of my dectalk 4 
times  in the more than  20 years I have been using it.
I daily manage books with effortless OCR abilities, as a part of my 
professional life.
If memory serves, should I need it, service remains possible....but I have 
only needed it once.
Sorry your  limited imagination cannot grasp that where there is will and 
ingenuity Don, there are solutions.



On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, Don wrote:

> On 11/15/2022 9:27 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>
>>  On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, jake mcmahanCharles Mcmahan wrote:
>> 
>> >      Normally I don't say much on these type things but I think this 
>> >  whole thing is quite unnecessary.  We all use products and technology 
>> >  in our own way, think in our own way, that's what makes the world what 
>> >  it is.  While I personally use dectalk for some things, eloquence for 
>> >  others, I don't think it's a bad idea for an old product to be invested 
>> >  in if proper permission is given.  Last I heard, Jake Gross did get the 
>> >  source from someone who actually worked at the company, so really the 
>> >  legal thing is complicated and I wouldn't do well exploring that one.  
>> >  Point is though, we're all people who function in different ways and 
>> >  have our own ideas. Lots of this stuff is very informative and it's 
>> >  interesting to see what others think but I don't think it's necessary 
>> >  for anyone to be hostile or get worked up when there really is no need 
>> >  for it.
>> >
>>  Well said, which is why I spoke to the disrespectful comparison  of how I
>>  *choose* to use equipment to an 8-track machine.
>>    What value is there in such a comment?
>
> Value?  It points out that the technology is OLD and no longer being
> developed or supported, IN ANY WAY.  Just like DECtalk is old and
> unsupported.  There are no active 8-track manufacturers.  There is
> no active DECtalk manufacturer.
>
> As long as your 8 track (DECtalk) continues working AND you are
> happy with its performance and not desirous of any features
> available from newer technology, you can continue to use it.
>
> Just like an 8 track user can continue to listen to his collection
> of 8-track titles -- as long as they (and the player) continue
> to work.  But, if he wants 10 hours of music on a cartridge,
> he's SoL -- ain't gonna happen with that technology.  Or, if
> he wants higher fidelity reproduction *or* error free copying.
>
> And, there's no one he can talk to about getting those enhancements
> made ... because there's no one asserting ownership of the product.
>
>>  Most of my remarks were not  addressed to don specifically, but to the
>>  thread generally, which I freely owned up not reading.
>>  Why He chose to make it personal just because I did not write in context
>>  is entirely on him.
>
> You chose to reply to *my* post -- not, for example, to josh's post in which
> claims of "poor blind people on social security" was voiced.  Along with the
> passive-aggressive comments regarding my being "an authority on all aspects 
> of
> the human condition".
>
> Or, am I mistaken?  Was that intended as a COMPLIMENT??
>
>>  A shared label does not a shared experience make uniformly, that is part
>>  of what makes us human.
>>  Karen
>>    who is done commenting at all now.
>
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