Hi Larry: I grew up on DoubleTalk when I bought my first ASAP and when better chips became available, I bought those too. Eloquence came after but my preference is DoubleTalk. Francis Khan ----- Original Message ----- From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:07 AM Subject: [bookport] Synthesizers > While we are talking about synthesizers, let me ask a question or two: > > What do you think of DEC-Talk? > > I will say that AT&T Natural Voices requires far too much in the way of > resources than we are able to put on a low power-consumption device. > > It looks like the top contenders are > > > DoubleTalk > Eloquence > DEC-Talk > > What are your thoughts? > > Do you know of others? > >