I've actually never noticed that, not in a very long time. Not saying it's 
not true, but I really don't notice it. I actually think my doubletalk takes 
a couple milliseconds longer to quiet than does eloquence though I haven't 
used it in a while so it's hard to remember. When I reprogram my GMRS radio 
later this summer it will come back to me, that's where I use the dos box 
which is the current computer to have the doubletalk.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: RFI problem.


> Hi John.
>
> I still find the computer to be more responsive with the DEC Express, even
> on a fast system.  For one thing, you don't get indexing on a software
> synthesizer, so when you hit CTRl to shut up JAWS, on a software
> synthesizer it will keep chattering until the next time it needs to 
> refresh
> the speech buffer and at that point it will all of the sudden shut up.  On
> a hardware synthesizer that supports indexing, it gets the "shut up"
> command much more quickly.  It isn't usually very noticeable for most
> desktop applications such as word processors, spreadsheet programs, e-mail
> and the like because the programs are usually sending things to be spoken
> in fairly small chunks.  But, sometimes on certain web sites, the
> difference can be very pronounced.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 09:36 PM 6/6/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>>I haven't noticed a difference with my last few computers. My old ones I
>>did, but these days, they run the same with software synth as hardware, at
>>least the way I build them. I just hate the speech from the doubletalk,
>>always have but with my old windows 3.1 box I need to program commercial
>>radios, dos really, I need that doubletalk. I'd like a dectalk some day,
>>that's a bit better. I'd probably never use it with XP though.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:21 PM
>>Subject: Re: RFI problem.
>>
>>
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > I am still a big fan of hardware synthesizers, and the venerable DEC
>> > Express actually works quite well with a Radio Shack USB to Serial
>> > converter.  The machine still behaves noticably better with a hardware
>> > synthesizer, even on an Athelon processor and 512MB of RAM.
>> >
>> > By the way, does anyone know where to send a DEC Express for repair?  I 
>> > am
>> > running on a borrowed one right now because mine called it quits.
>> >
>> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 11:02 PM 6/5/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>> >>Two sound cards can be a challenge to stability in some machines.  It 
>> >>is
>> >>still handy to have real speech at dos.  You can dig yourself out of
>> >>trouble
>> >>if windows won't boot.  You can run talking dos and dos programs from 
>> >>the
>> >>desktop.  You can take the extra load off the processor if things get
>> >>tight.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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