Re: Echo II sound cards

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

The company that sold them and sells the IBM equivalent is in California.  I
made some phone calls to them about three years ago.  The manual states that
there are three ways that the Echo can produce humans speech:  a robotic male
voice with unlimited vocabulary, a high-quality female voice with a 4000 word
vocabulary, and a third way.  I was interested in learning more about the 3rd
option, or how to make my own high quality compressed speech (to have Fred
Flintstone say, "Yaba-daba-do!" on my Apple II, for example).  The president
and v.p. of the company are still there, but everyone else is a newbie, Apple
II-wise.  In the end, they couldn't find the docs, so it was a dead end.

The Echo II cards are one of the few cards that operates in slot 3.  It's
capabililites are duplicated, and the mfg. says surpased, on the DoubleTalk
card and the SlotBuster card, but I've not noticed any difference.

The //c version was originally called "The Cricket."

Favorite programs to use with the Echo:
Tutor-Tech
AppleWorks 
Comic Creator

	JaY