Re: What is an Echo Commander card?

["Theusch" <theusch@centurytel.net>]

<bobryan9@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8kiril$86c$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <LW2b5.124$jS4.43002@feed.centuryinter.net>,
>   "Theusch Family" <theusch@centurytel.net> wrote:
> >
> > <bobryan9@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8kfs6j$2g1
> $1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > > In article <XMHa5.10$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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So if I typed "PR #5" and then typed something like "cat" it would say it
into the apple speaker?