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From: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Carla Campbell)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: speech and an at computer
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Date: 23 Jan 91 15:30:45 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 PG> i am having problems loading up my speech when i do 1 of 4 
 PG> things happen....

Hi there. I imagine fourteen people have already answered this one, but I
will give it a shot, anyway just in case.  <grin>

For starters, it really helps 'round here when you ask for help if you let
us know what synthesizer and what screen reader you're using. I suspect
from what you've said that you're using an Artic 200 or Votalker card,
though.  What you have seen happen is 'normal' for those synthesizers on
machines faster than 8 or 9 mhz-- most AT 286 and 386 machines, in other
words.

Unfortunately, both of these synthesizers were designed for XT machines and
just don't work properly on the faster computers.  Sometimes they do..
sometimes they don't, as you have seen. I have also noticed that as time
goes on, they work less and less often. Comforting, huh?

I had a Votalker in a 9mhz <zzzzzz> 286 for a year until that made me so
crazy I got a new synthesizer.

Good luck with it.

                                                   --Carla

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