[DECtalk] different hardware dectalk versions 1980s through 1990s

[joshknnd1982 at gmail.com]

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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