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

[Brandon Misch]

that is interesting. have heard of most of these.


On 1/27/23, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> 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:
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> - Sounding Board and Speak-Out by GW Micro, Inc.
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> - All Accent boards by Aicom Corporation
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> - All artic boards compatible with SONIX.COM and TTS.COM and the
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>      TransPort by Artic Technologies
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> - Apollo I by Dolphin Systems
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> - Braille 'n Speak and Type 'n Speak by Blazie Engineering
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> - DECtalk by Digital Equipment Corporation
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> - MultiVoice and Portable DECtalk by The Childrens Hospital
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> - DECtalk PC and DECtalk Express by Digital Equipment Corporation
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> - Echo PC and GP by Street Electronics
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> - Internal ECHO PCII, PC+, MC and 1000 by Street Electronics
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> - DoubleTalk PC & LT by RC Systems
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> - All Keynote synthesizers by PulseData
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> - Audapter by Personal Data Systems
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> - ASP by Automated Speech Functions
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> - Personal Speech System versions A and B by Votrax
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> - Prose 4000 by Speech Plus Incorporated
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> - LiteTalk by Microtalk
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> - Reading Edge by Xerox & Digital
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> - VoiceCard by PulseData
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> - Votalker by Votrax
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> 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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