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From: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey)
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Subject: Re: Accent
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Date: 14 Mar 91 04:24:37 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

When Rich Lampert was demonstrating the program he was using a Artic
board in a laptop computer so the only part I saw was the screenreader
and the tablet.  The screen reader seemed to be quite good.  I can't
speak for the speach unit though.  I have a demo tape.  I'll give it a
listen.  One comment that Rich Lampert made however was that one of the
differences between say Vert Plus or Dectalk is that the words tend to
be extended where as their speech system clipsthe words.  When you
think back tothe days of the votalker, Walter, it is amazing how far
the screen readers have come but the lower priced speech systems for
the most part sound pretymuch the same.  I had the votalker in a
Packard Bell the other day and I sat back and thought "hey that little
votalker isn't all that bad" Grant
One more comment: The Soundingboard though it has the same type speech
as say the Artic 215 board or the Artic Votalker, somehow more
expresion has been put into the speech thus when youhave a period at
the end of a sentence the voice lowers in pitch slightly.  I'm really
amazed though that the students who are familiar with talkers want to
be trained on the Soundingboard.  Word does get around. Grant

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