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From: William.Wilson@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
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Subject: New Top Gun!
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Date: 20 Sep 90 15:56:56 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Ok, here's the scoop...
    A couple of messages back I stated that Flipper had the fastest
response time with the Dectalk, or at least it was the quickest
according to an article in Newsbits and from what I could tell.
Vocal-Eyes, however, did seem to have a higher speech rate overall..
    Well, Doug posted that he was working on a new driver for the Dec
which should give it a faster response, I got a copy of it just last
night, and...
     Yep, there's a new top gun for the Dectalk!  Using the new driver,
the keyboard response is at least as fast as Flipper now with
Vocal-Eyes, and add to this the higher speech rate, and you really got
something!  The one complaint everybody has always had with the Dectalk
is its slowness, and honestly, I find this to no longer be the case!
Sure, it can't respond and put out the speech rate of a Soundingboard or
one of the other really fast synthesizers, but it ain't too shabby
anymore when running Vocal-Eyes, and lets face it, it sounds pretty
good!
     If you're running a Dectalk, or have a Dectalk available to you, I
highly recommend you give Vocal-Eyes a look.
    Amazing the difference a little thing like a driver can make!
                                                        Willie

... BlinkTalk, Dr. Deb and Silver in Pittsburgh!

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