[bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Dec Talk Singing (was: Re: Re: My turn for recommendations)
- From: "Bertha A Guerrero" <missmommymomma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:30:45 -0500
Okay, I'm showing my technology ignorance... what is DecTalk?
Bertha
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From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:04 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] OT: Dec Talk Singing (was: Re: Re: My turn for
recommendations)
There is this really impressive version of Dec Talk singing a portion of
Bohemian Rhapsody that came with my K1000. I wish that whoever created it
had finished it. But what they did, about a third of it, was incredible.
Evan
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From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I sort of wish I knew something about the really geeky side of DecTalk. I
love the things that people have done where they make it sing and
whatnot...I'm a nerd LOL.
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From: "Duane Iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 9:13 PM
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I use elliquence almost exclusively now since my dectalk PC card is no
longer usable. But I still miss Dectalk.
Of course I miss DOS too.
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From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:38 PM
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I still use Eloquence and find that generally I prefer it to the Sappy
voices (spelling is wrong, sorry), because by being less human, it
allows for more imagination. I wonder, does that make any sense? Let's
just say, I read and write a lot with Jaws, obviously, and I'm so used
to Eloquence that when it reads the words of friends in e-mails or the
voices of characters in books or even of my own characters, the sound of
the actual computer voice is nicely eclipsed by the way the particular
voice sounds either in reality or in my mind. With the newer ones, they
have a sort of fascination for me because they sound almost eerily human
sometimes, but neither do they have much inflection, so it's harder for
me to "hear" in my imagination.
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From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:29 AM
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Or even the old eloquence stuff from previous versions of JAWS.
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From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:19 AM
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Hahaha, that would be weird! I love the voices, though...well, most
of them. I recently got into a little bit of interactive fiction
playing, and they sure beat MS Sam!
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From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:18 AM
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Yeah, UI took German, but I'm running the Sappy voices with JAWS
8.0, and using Karren (the Australian). Love the voice, but German
with an Australian accent...well, it really doesn't bear thinking
about.
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From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:08 AM
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Hahahaha you should! *grins* That would be interesting...though you
might have to be accessively bored to think of all of them...Haha!
Oh, of course, it would be in another language...too bad I took
Spanish instead of German.
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From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:06 AM
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Sometime when I'm eccessively bored I'll have to write up the
"tenets of blindism" and post them here. <g>
Incidentally, the only wiki article on blindisms iis in German,
which is unhelpful in answering the "where'd it come from"
question.
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From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:56 PM
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LOL! Blindism, the new political belief system!
I guess that just proves that -ism is used in a lot of various
ways and can't really be taken to mean one thing in particular. I
do wonder, though, about the origin of the term "blindism" and
who really coined it, etc.
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From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:55 PM
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Funny: when i think "ism" I usually think of a political
ideology like "Communism" "Fascism" etc. I could imagine
mentioning the word blindism in a poli-sci class and confusing
the heck out of everyone...
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From: "Elfqueen" <elfqueen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:49 PM
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Ah, I see. Yeah...okay, that really did go right by me the
first time, sorry! *smile*
Actually, though, the -ism suffix doesn't always refer to
discrimination. This is no nearer to what blindisms are,
really, but there is "autism," which is organic/neurological
(yes, I know there's increasing argument about this, I'm not
trying to start anything *smile*), and "giantism," which is
physical. "Blindism" is behavioral, but my guess is that it
came about as a sort of slang. I could be wrong; I haven't
researched it or anything.
This has turned out to be quite an interesting discussion, the
kind of thing I don't get to participate in often just because
no one is usually interested enough to pursue such things and
be so analytical.
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From: "Rick Roderick" <rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:45 PM
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Nicole,
I am not disputing your definition of blindisms at all.
I just think the use of the ism is interesting, because in
every other instance of use of the word, it refers to
discrimination. In blindness, it refers to bad habits.
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