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From: cjohn975@pallas.athenanet.com (John Johnson)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Time-altered Speech
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Date: 30 May 90 20:36:44 GMT
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Index Number: 8529

In article <12015@bunker.UUCP> Al Cavalier (Al.Cavalier@f10.n130.z1.fidonet.org)
writes:
>Index Number: 8450
>
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>   Does anyone know of any companies that offerecorders that permit the 
>playback of time-altered speech, i.e., speech that can be played back at 
>up to 300% of normal speeds and down to 50% of normal speeds without the 
>typical distortions in pitch? Sometimes this is called speech compression 
>and expansion (but not in the "file compression" sense.

I have a machine made by American Printinghouse for the Blind (model
3-5184A also called the "handicassette) which is a small four-track
recorder with three controls for speech compression: the on/off switch:
pich; and speed.  I purchased mine for about $140.00.  It includes a
nicad battery pack and a battery clip for regular AA batteries.  I
think the speech restoration is quite clear (puts the C-80 Lib. of
Congress players to shame ((but what wouldn't?)) and it comes with a
small set of mono headphones.  I've had mine for almost a year and
have had no problems.  Hope this helps.

--Chip-- (cjohn975@athenanet.com or uunet!pallas!cjohn975