[misc.handicap] speech for laptop computers

RLAMBER@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA (Robert M. Lambert) (09/25/90)

Index Number: 10613


Hi:

In issue #1514, Tandy responds to a question about speech synthesis
devices for laptop computers.  To Tandy's comments I would like to
add that I am now using a Toshiba T1200 with an Artic Technologies
Synphonix 2.25   synthesizer card and Artic Business Vision 2.10
screen reading software.   The Synphonix card is mounted, as Tandy
indicates, in a slot at the rear of the Toshiba.  It provides quite
excellent speech, especially if an external speaker of some decent
quality is used with it.  Its only problem is that, unlike what
Tandy suggested, it uses certain interupts that make the Toshiba's
built-in modem unemployable.  To solve this problem, I have simply
bought a good but inexpensive Hewlett Packard mini modem and run it
from the Toshiba's cerial port.  It all works real well.----Here we
are working right now!!!

Bob Lambert