William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson) (04/11/91)
Index Number: 14677
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CH> Might ask him if he's ever tried to get any speed out of a dec
CH> talk, that is response time. I've used them and I find myself
CH> pounding on the shut up key without any satisfaction.
Chris,
I don't totally disagree with you, and as a matter of fact, was
glad when I got my Soundingboard for the computer I use the most and
increased the response time significantly, but have you ever run
Vocal-Eyes or Flipper with the Dec?
Seriously, both of them make the response time of the Dectalk much
better than what I've seen in other speech programs, and although not
instantaneous, the shut up key works fast enough when them on the Dec to
make it bearable, at least by my standards.
There is no doubt about it, if you're going to do a lot of key
pounding, the Dec does have its drawbacks, but my ear still tells me
it's the best thing out there if you're doing a lot of reading.
Willie
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Internet: William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.orgChristopher.Hill@p233.f4115.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Christopher Hill) (04/11/91)
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Well, I guess I'm an artic biggit, I'll admit it right here. I
find that for things like reading messages and such, it's a lot
easier to understand artic synthesizers than dectalk. I've run
dectalk and Flipper, the only frustrating part is when you're at
the bottom of the screen, need to read something on line 17 or so.
You go into review hit the up arrow about 8 times, and it takes
5-10 seconds fo the thing to stop starting and finally say
something.
If i had to program on that, I'd sure have to change my methods.
Oh well, to each his own. Later..
Chris
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Internet: Christopher.Hill@p233.f4115.n124.z1.fidonet.orgGrant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey) (04/11/91)
Index Number: 14717
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I find the same thing to be true with the Vert Plus in review mode.
One really has to push the up arrow and down arrow in review mode
slowly or you'll miss what you're looking for. I like the
responsiveness fo the Symphonics boards and the Soundingboard. I was
quite pleased with the way Jaws reacted with the Soundingboard. It's a
shame that themore advanced speech systems, Dectalk and Vert Plus have
such a slow reaction time. Grant
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Internet: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.orgGrant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey) (04/12/91)
Index Number: 14810
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The soundingboard has been designed to effectively use punctuation,
pauses, ETC to make the speech have much more expresion than saythe
Artic boards or the Echo. I can read for a long time with the
Soundingboard without getting burned out and that is good. The
soundingboard is certainly not a flat monotone board like so many. I'm
still getting used to the Axcent. It seems to go to the other extreme.
I buess I can get used to listening to anything if I want to. One of
the nicest parts of the soundinbaord is the flexibility to define hot
keys, the rewind mode, fast forward mode, time and date availability,
and the ability to change rate of speech and volume controls while the
board is reading. The paus control which stopps the speech, holds upt
he computer, and then picks up when pressed again is something I miss
when I'm using another board. I don't think any other and for sure no
other speech board at any price that I've seen has this valuable
feature. If you ever have the chance give the Soundingblard a try.
You will be pleased!.
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