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From: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Keynote Gold XE
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Date: 26 Mar 91 04:01:11 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 GD> I didn't really look at the keynote gold but did get a good
 GD> look at the Master Touch Program from Humanware.  The speech
 GD> output I've only heard on tape and it seems not as good as I
 GD> might expect considering what is out there already.  In
 GD> otherwords if that is digital speech I would still take a
 GD> Soundingboard.

I am not quite sure what you mean by "digital speech." I suspect you mean
digitized speech as all solid state electronics, and computers are digital.
Digitized speech is based on human speech which is digitized or reduced to
numbers for later playback.  The Keynote Gold is not digitized.  It is
synthesized speech like everything else we use.  It used the same hardware as
the Audapter from Personal Data Systems.  Personally, i consider it to be
somewhat better then the SSI 263/sounding board/SynPhonix type synthesizer, but
this is a subjective opinion.  We mostly like what we are used too.

... Your Sound Alternative

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