Tandy.Way@p0.f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Tandy Way) (07/27/90)
Index Number: 9538
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
I am not an article writer so my report won't be as fancy as chip
orange or the others. I thought some would like to know my first
impressions of the audapter speech synthesizer. I have a built in
bias against the ssi263 family of synthesizers like the votalker
accent soundingboard ect. this is irronic because I now have a
sounding board for my laptop but it was the only internal board I
could find. if I were to rank speech synthesizers based on clarity
alone they would go like this. 1. decktalk 2. audapter 3. vert or the
pros 4000 board which ever you prefer to call it. 4. echo gp or pc 5
the ssi263 family of synthesizers. The audapter has internal
firmware to control most speech functions. you can let your screen
reader control it or over ride with internal control. it has a bult
in two k buffer and a power saver. It doesn't misspronounce commons
words that we are all used to hearing wrong with our faviorate
synthesizers like the word blind or multiply but it does mess up
others. I think it has the ability to learn pronounciation but I
haven't learned about that yet. I have only had it online for 2 days
now but profundly impressed and I am not easily impressed by speech.
I have been around the block several times. I am also playing with
vocalize and impressed with that software. (swallow) are you
listening Doug? the only thing vocalize lacks at this writing is a
speech driver for the audapter. They have a generic driver and you
can write a data file but I am not good at those kinds of things so I
hope gw micro will write a driver for us dummys. if gw micro needs
technical specs to write the driver or the data file I will be glad
to supply what I can or act as a bridge between p.d.s. and them.
tandy
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