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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.general,net.nlang,net.works
Subject: DECtalk announcement
Message-ID: <307@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 10:33:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 13 10:33:55 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Dec-83 01:38:25 EST
Organization: DEC UNIX Engineering Group
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DECtalk, a text-to-speech terminal, was announced today as an
official DEC product, DCT01-AA.  It can accept text from a
host computer over an RS232 asynchronous line or from a
local terminal.  It can place and receive calls on the public
telephone network using a built-in registered telephone
interface.  Remote users can communicate with application
programs using Touch-Tone (TM) input.  DECtalk comes with
seven built-in voices (male, female, and child) which can
be tuned by the user or application.  Quantity one price
is $4,000 and units will be available in March.

An extensive library of C subroutines is available to simplify
application program development.  They are in the public-domain
(and will be available from Decus).  Feel free to contact us
if you have any questions.  You can call the demo number,
(617) 493-8255 (493-TALK) if you wish to listen to it.

Martin Minow (proud parent)	Dave Conroy (other proud parent)
decvax!minow			decvax!dgc