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From: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey)
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Subject: Re: artic vs vocalize
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Date: 19 Apr 91 20:20:42 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

In reference to Artic I have the old version of Artic at
present.  It has no smart zones, or any other automatic screen
monitoring or hyper active windows, or anything like that.
After I got Artic I ran into Jaws which runs well with most
programs once it is set up.  It has what is called automatic
frame monitoring meaning that you coulddesignate an area of the
screen to be monitored and when changes were made in that area
they would be automatically read to you.  This is the first time
that I saw Word perfect and speech work well together.  However
Jaws to me seemed sort of criptic but only because the command
structure was so different from anything I'd ever used before.
I'm used to it now.  Last August however I got a demo copy of
Vocal-Eyes and to me it combines the best of the old and the
new.  Vocal-eyes is one of the most advanced screenreading
programs out today.  I got a program that worked, had no buggs,
and that I could learn to use in a farely short period of time.
Of course I had to sit down with manual but that is true with
any speech program.  Vocal-Eyes also has screen monitoring or in
its case hyper active windows that are easy to define and set up
for programs.  When combined with the Soundingboard Vocal-eyes
and the Soundingboard make a great team.  The Soundingboard
offers in a speech sinthicizer many unique features such as the
ability to change rate and volume while it is talking without
having to into review mode, rewind analagus to the rewind of a
casette machine, fast forward, a pause control that allows youto
stop reading at any time and resume whereyouleft off, user
definable hot keys, and definable bufferrs and dictionaries.  It
is a power packed sinthcizer for $395.00.  I chose the
Soundingboard and Vocal-Eyes to use in my training
classesbecause for the comined price of $795.00 it was the most
power packed system I've seen.  Again I've not seen Artic 3.03
yet.  It's always fun to look at a new speech program but it is
going to be hard tofinda a product that can beat Vocal-Eyes and
the Soundingboard. Grant

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