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