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From: kuo@skatter.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Text to Speech on PCs
Message-ID: <287@skatter.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 20:06:02 EST
Article-I.D.: skatter.287
Posted: Thu Feb  5 20:06:02 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Feb-87 07:59:27 EST
References: <1879@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Organization: Accelerator Lab, Saskatoon, Sask.
Lines: 22
Keywords: Text Speech PC
Summary: ECHO2PC

In article <1879@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>, psk@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Philip S. Kravitz) writes:
> I am looking for a good Text to Speech peripheral (< $1000) for an ibm
> pc compatible (att 6300 plus) running under either DOS or UNIX.  It can
> be either a board or even better a stand alone rs232 device.  Quality is
> important although my price limitation is < $1K.  Any suggestions out there?
> Thanks in advance !!
> -- 
> Phil Kravitz	AT&T (Bell Laboratories), Murray Hill
> UUCP:		{allegra|ihnp4}!ulysses!psk
> Internet:	psk@ulysses.uucp

I have "played" with a speech generator under MS-DOS. It is called ECHO2PC
(or something like that). It has a plug in board and an external speaker.
A decive driver comes with it so that you can send commands to it (as LPT2)
from within a program. It costs about $150CND. The speech it generates is
*not* bad, but is not fantastic either. So depending on what you wanted the
device for, this may or may not be the thing for you. If you want more
details (ie name of manufacturer etc) I can look it up.


... Peter/
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