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Article #15658Re: Text to Speech on PCs
From: kuo
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1987 01:06
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1987 01:06
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In article <1879@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>, psk@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Philip S. Kravitz) writes:
> I am looking for a good Text to Speech peripheral (< $1000) for an ibm
> pc compatible (att 6300 plus) running under either DOS or UNIX. It can
> be either a board or even better a stand alone rs232 device. Quality is
> important although my price limitation is < $1K. Any suggestions out there?
> Thanks in advance !!
> --
> Phil Kravitz AT&T (Bell Laboratories), Murray Hill
> UUCP: {allegra|ihnp4}!ulysses!psk
> Internet: psk@ulysses.uucp
I have "played" with a speech generator under MS-DOS. It is called ECHO2PC
(or something like that). It has a plug in board and an external speaker.
A decive driver comes with it so that you can send commands to it (as LPT2)
from within a program. It costs about $150CND. The speech it generates is
*not* bad, but is not fantastic either. So depending on what you wanted the
device for, this may or may not be the thing for you. If you want more
details (ie name of manufacturer etc) I can look it up.
... Peter/
uucp: {alberta, ihnp4}!sask!skatter!kuo
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