[DECtalk] old synthesizers and baud rate?

Brandon Misch bmisch2002 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 19:52:34 EST 2023


probably had to do more with printing or embossing when it comes to
the braille 'n speak and other products.

On 1/27/23, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> You know I wonder why one or two old hardware synthesizers had such high
> baud rates? The old Keynote SA I had, used baud rate 38400. All the others,
> my braille 'n speak and braille lite used baud rate 9600. Such a high baud
> rate of 38400 would give no advantage to screen reader or speech
> synthesizer. Unless they didn't want people copying text directly to the
> synthesizer through the serial port so they chose a very high baud rate? I
> think even decTalk only needed 9600 baud.
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> Josh
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