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From: Nancy.Feldman@f605.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Nancy Feldman)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS
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Date: 19 Apr 91 20:27:04 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I am using an Echo PC speech synthesizer from Street Electronics
along with Enable Reader.  Does anyone else use this combination?

I have been quite happy with this low-cost combination.  It does
most of what I want, and for the hundreds of dollars I'm saving by
not buying one of the commercial software programs, I'm happy.  But
I was wondering what other low-cost (under about $400) speech
synthesizers there are out there?  What might their advantages be
over the Echo?

I'm hesitant to change synthesizers, as I have become very used to
the Echo's speech, but I'm just curious to find out what else is
out there.

On a humorous note:  Does anyone else out there ever accidentally
pronounce a word as their synthesizer does?  Boy, this can be
embarrassing; let me tell you!

-> MegaMail v2.01 #0:Consider what I have not said.

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