[Hallicrafters] Sorry, No Tactile TV

[Gary Pewitt]

At 11:54 AM 1/4/03 -0500, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:

>Tim,
>
>There are several software programs that convert the display on the CRT into a
>speakable format.
>
>These programs are very costly and they are not given free to the blind.
>
>About 15 years ago I bought a Bondwell 12 Luggable CP/M computer.  It had 
>a free, repeat free, built in text to speech utility that would read any 
>text file and had two voices (male and female) and if the sometimes 
>peculiar pronounciation was objectionable you could improve it by miss 
>spelling the words so they would sound more like human speech -or- you 
>could use a phonetic alphabet and get really good speech out of it.  This 
>is in a 4 Megahertz Z80 processor machine with 128 K of ram running CP/M 
>Plus.  I really regret letting it go.  I can see no reason why similar 
>results should cost so much on modern high powered and high speed machines.




Gary Pewitt  N9ZSV  gpewitt at execpc.com
6120 W. Calumet Rd. Apt 204
Milwaukee, WI  53223-4132
Sturgeon's Law "90% of everything is crap"


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