[DECtalk] reading edge with dectalk 1992

[Karen Lewellen]

Oh yes, the drivers aspect is one thing that insured quality.
individual drivers that showcased the synthesizer's abilities were created 
so  as to insure investment value..some were quite expensive.
Was never a Jaws fan personally, even in DOS.  I personally feel Jaws is 
at fault for  some programs shifting reading ability from the keyboard's 
main keys to the number pad.  For me personally, I am thankful 
business vision lets me keep my hands on the keyboard as I work.



On Sat, 28 Jan 2023, Brandon Misch wrote:

> that's cool. didn't know that reading edge supported any of the other
> screen readers because I never got to test them with it. I only know
> of jaws because I installed it under windows 98 and reading edge was
> supported at that time but it needed drivers from the manufacturer to
> work properly. This was the same for some other synthesizers like
> keynote gold multimedia.
>
> On 1/28/23, Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> wrote:
>> 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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