[DECtalk] reading edge with dectalk 1992

[Karen Lewellen]

Sounds like someone kept variable column page scanning for the default 
setting then.
On average, for me a least,  once the page  type is established, it takes 
less than 10 
seconds, at least for  books and the like.



On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com wrote:

> Kutztown university had a reading edge in their library over 20 years ago. I
> remember using it there. It was quite slow to scan and read text. But I was
> in college in the early to mid 2000s and the reading edge was from back in
> 1992.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of Blake Roberts
> via Dectalk
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023 22:33
> To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
> Cc: Blake Roberts <BEarlRoberts at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] reading edge with dectalk 1992
>
> I never used a Reading Edge. However, this subject brings back my first
> memory of hearing DECTalk speak.
>
>
> In elementary school, I and other blind students went to the house of a
> gentleman who had a Kurzweil reading machine with DECTalk in it. I don't
> remember much about that experience several decades later except being
> amazed by how realistic the DECTalk voice sounded. I think the gentleman
> was using Perfect Paul or Beautiful Betty. When I first used a DECTalk
> 4.3 speak window early in the 21st century, my first thought was: "This
> is the voice I heard on that guy's Kurzweil reading machine when I was
> in elementary school."
>
>
> It has been fun for me to share tonight with everyone on-list about my
> TTS memories.
>
> Blake
>
>
> On 1/27/2023 9:17 PM, Brandon Misch wrote:
>> I never had one but used one at my school years ago around 2002-2003.
>> I saw one at a convention around 1996. They were great for their time.
>>
>> On 1/27/23, Mike <underthetoaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Jeeze that's a lot. Somehow my school got one for me at that time and
>>> it was almost completely useless anyway because the OCR was horrible.
>>>
>>> On 1/27/23, joshknnd1982 at gmail.com <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I was right? The reading edge with decTalk made in 1992 was around
> $6000.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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