David.Andrews@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews) (10/26/90)
Index Number: 11309
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
Hello everyone,
This is my Closing the Gap report, or at least a partial. I saw
Don Breda today, and I am sure he says hello.
I saw a very interesting new speech program today, from New
Zealand. It is carried by HumanWare and is called Master Touch,
or maybe that is Touch Master. It includes screen review
software, a speech synthesizer and a special touch pad. The
touchpad has 25 raised lines across it. As you run your finger
across, it reads to you what is on that line. The space where
you run your finger is actually a long rectangle formed by top
and bottom lines. There are also two small squares to the left
of each line. The first one on the left reads you the entire
line and the second gives you the line number. It is a very
interesting concept and does work. The speech card, which comes
as part of the package has quite good speech, on par with the
Audapter or maybe a little better. The board has 350K of memory
and an Intel 8088 processon on-board, so no computer memory is
taken for speech. The screen review package supposedly has smart
features built in to automatically read light bars, pop up menus,
pull-down menus, boxes etc. I did not see these work, as time
was limited.
The screen review part and speech sell for $1550 and it is $2150
with the touch pad. This is a new concept and merits a look.
I understand that Artic is finally showing Visions 3 but it is in
beta test, not released yet.
That is it from cold Minnesota. We actually had snow flurries
the other night. Can't wait to get back to warm dry Albuquerque.
David Andrews
... Your Sound Alternative
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