thedark Second Lieutenant
Joined: 30 Jul 2005
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:09 pm Post subject: Hardware Speech Synthesizers |
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A hardware speech synthesizer is a device that is connected to the computer's serial or parallel port and translates the text to a spoken output. Normally there are Braille labels on all controls to indicate the off and on position, and volume control. Hardware synthesizers also have the ability to speak in different tones that can be setup to indicate various parts of a document or text. Some models will provide a connection for headphones. The following is a list of speech synthesizers that are supported on the Linux operating system and can be used with Emacspeak:
Accent SA and Apollo 2 (http://polio.dyndns.org/chip/vss.html)
DECTalk Express (http://www.4access.com/synthesizers.asp)
DoubleTalk (http://www.rcsys.com) |
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