Re: What is an Echo Commander card?

[bobryan9@my-deja.com]

In article <LW2b5.124$jS4.43002@feed.centuryinter.net>,
  "Theusch Family" <theusch@centurytel.net> wrote:
>
> <bobryan9@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8kfs6j$2g1
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> > In article <XMHa5.10$jS4.4021@feed.centuryinter.net>,
> >   "Theusch Family" <theusch@centurytel.net> wrote:
> > > Could somebody tell me what an Echo Commander card is and what
mine
> > can do?
> > > There are connections for a microphone-type DIN and the Apple
speaker.
> > >
> >
> > Speech output.
>
> Could you be more specific?
> >

It outputs speech :-).  Certain programs use it for speech output
(although I've never seen any commercial product that uses an Echo).

Maybe some educational programs use the card.

The card can act like a printer, so you can print to whatever slot you
have the card in, and it will speak the works.

The speech it outputs is pretty horrible.  You have to program the heck
out of it to get decent pronunciation.

Example:  the word encyclopedia

the echo outputs:

eeee--nnnn--cccc--eeeee---clo---peeeee--deeee--aa

I'm not sure about the above word, but is just an example.  The card
knows nothing about human speech, and you must program phoenomes
instead of letters (if you want decent speech)

Bob


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