[DECtalk] reading edge with dectalk 1992

[Josh Kennedy]

well, I only got to use it once or twice. I certainly wasn't an expert at it. I knew enough to scan some pages with it and read with it and that's about it. 

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> On Jan 28, 2023, at 00:39, 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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