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From: John.Sanfilippo@f608.n107.z1.fidonet.org (John Sanfilippo)
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Subject: Re: The Braille N' Speak
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Date: 4 Feb 91 17:16:24 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi,

I should have addressed this to whomever you were addressing,
but I trust they will probably see this anyway--I hope!

Anyway, I go into speech parameters with 3 4 5 chord and press
space, until I have silent keys. I also use a somewhat lower
speaking volume.  Most of the time, this works fine for me.

At first, I didn't trust the thing, not hearing what I was
brailling, but I've since learned to go ahead and make mistakes;
the BNS  is most often very relyable.  I can always clean up my
errors later.

By the way, when I ordered my BNS I got it with the clock
calendar and calculator and the PC interface, and the service
contract. That ran me just under $1200.  If you don't want all
those features, you can get it for a bit less.  But I wanted
everything but the $500 disk drive!

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