Re: DEC Talk board...

  • From: Bruce Toews <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:14:56 -0500 (CDT)

Back in '85 (this dates me) when I was first introduced to IBM computers, 
the speech synth was a Vert. As I recall, it was a little box ... a rather 
big one, actually. I had always assumed that that was the synthesizer. It 
sat on top of the PC and under the monitor.

Bruce

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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Francis Daniels wrote:

> I sure do remember the VERT.  TSI pushed long and hard on a number of places
> here in Los Angeles to have them.  When we were testing the Talking Optacon,
> we used a prototype of the VERT board.  There were some pretty nice
> pronunciation rules in that board that did not make it to the VERT.
>
> Francis
>
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