Sell it back to Steve Jobs, or whatever his name is. If you really
still have it, it might just be a collector's item..
At 07:20 PM 9/14/2006, Annette Carr wrote:
I must say that I really love my BookPort. I was not happy about DoubleTalk, but I quickly got used to it, and now I don't have a problem moving between the various speech synthesizers.
Speech synthesizers have come a long way since the first RC SlotBuster in my Apple Iie back in the mid 80's. Anyone interested in buying a loaded Apple Iie?
Annette
-----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Smith Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:14 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: In Defense of DoubleTalk...
Kevin -
Agreed. Given the choice, hardware is generally always preferable to software (which is what I _think_ you meant to say), since you're off-loading the heavy lifting from the microprocessor, itself, to an external device. This is why I prefer using a router on my PC instead of any software firewall. I remember back in the bad old days of DOS when a screen reader, alone, would eat up anywhere from 10% to as much as 25% of the CPU cycles and that's a _lot_ of overhead.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Jones" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 6:35 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: In Defense of DoubleTalk...
hardware is always better than hardware especially when pushing a computer to it's limits, but I guess most haven't realized that yet. It's too bad th eonly 3 or 4 hardware synths are at least $500
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