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From: David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: echopc
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Date: 12 Apr 91 15:31:55 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 MB>    hi,
 MB> I'm curious to know something about echopc: price, speech
 MB> quality, software features, phisical characteristics, vendors
 MB> and so.    I'm interesting to have information in order to
 MB> adapt software for italian language or to rewrite it here in
 MB> Italy.

The Echo PC has fair speech quality.  I find it easy to understand, although the
speed is on the slow side.  It is also difficult for software to control it
cleanly, so it squeals and makes noises some.  Finally, it is an external unit
which means that the text to speech algorithm is on-board, so I don't know about
converting to Italian.  I know that Dolphin systems has units with forgein
language  modules, but I don't know if Italian is one.

... David andrews

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