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From: jgh@killer.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs,comp.sys.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Looking for a high-quality digital voice synthesiser
Message-ID: <1639@killer.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 14:01:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 25 14:01:19 1987
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Summary: Try DecTalk
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In article <2138@pbhyf.UUCP>, tlh@pbhyf.UUCP (Lee Hounshell) writes:
	>I'm looking for a high-quality digital voice box that can be
	>used with any System V Unix machine..  through an RS-232 interface.
 	>Lee Hounshell - ptsfa!pbhyf!tlh 2600 Camino Ramon, #4E700
 	>415-823-2432   San Ramon, CA. 94583

You might look at Digital Equipment Corporations DecTalk Model DT-01
voice synthesizer. We have 3 of them that are used for calling in
to get voice mail on System 5 Unix machines.

There are several standard male and female voices, or you can
design your own. The input is RS232 plain old ascii text, or
you can input phonetically.

DecTalk has an internal speaker, and an external speaker jack. It also
has jacks to attach to a Touch-Tone phone line. It can answer the line,
prompt for touch tone responses, etc. It can also originate a call
and prompt for responses under computer control.

The manual gives examples of C programs necessary to drive
the interactive calls. Or, you can plug a dumb terminal into it
and just type sentences for fun.

Price...I think around $2,500.

I wrote some C programs that interface the standard unix mail
files so users can get their mail via the phone from home, but
I have always toyed with the idea of hooking one to a home alarm
system via a PC, you know, something like, "Greg! There is a car
coming up the driveway". I can hardly wait for the voice recognition
technology to be better developed.

--
Greg Hackney
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
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