[DECtalk] reading edge with dectalk 1992

[Karen Lewellen]

You are not remembering correctly.
The reading edge worked with vocal eyes and window eyes, asap and I believe 
asaw , have never been a windows user, perhaps tiny talk?
They also work with arctic business vision and windvision which I use   it 
with.
Honestly, if someone   wrote a  proper driver for it,  it might work in 
Linux too.
For me I am running one of the various editions of DOS, not Freedos which 
is still under development.
Using  the edition of ssh-Dos from early 2022, into a  Linux  shell serves. 
Granted Links is ported for DOS as well, but for my needs its fine.
Karen



On Sat, 28 Jan 2023, Brandon Misch wrote:

> how can you still use one in these modern times unless you're using an
> older operating system.
> they only worked in windows 95/98 with jaws if I am remembering wright.
>
> On 1/28/23, Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> wrote:
>> 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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