Wow, I didn't even know the TrS80 even had speech support.
Taht's amazing.  I used to have a coco 2 and then a coco 3.
Used to program in basic on it.  Guided myself by putting sounds into the code to know how the program was progressing.  It would have been a lot easier with speech.
Those were the days!
I remember those Kurzweil monsters.
They created magic for me.
It was neat.
Anyway, enough remeniscing.  Should probably go before my computer crashes.
Something computers didn't do then either.
Martin


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>
>Subject: History of screen readers
>   From: Jody W Ianuzzi <[log in to unmask]>
>   Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:21:17 -0500
>     To: [log in to unmask]
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>Back in the 1980s we had a Radio Shack TRS-80 with 48K memory.  We also got
>the voice synthesizer from Radio Shack and a program from the University of
>Illinois to read the screen.  I think this is the program that was being
>developed by the Navy.  The whole package did a pretty good job,
>considering.
>
>My next screen reader was from Micro Talk for DOS with a Synthphonics voice
>synthesizer.
>
>At the same time Kurtzweil came out with their first text reader.  It was
>the size of a large copier and cost $25,000 each.  New York State bought 25
>of them and put them in regional libraries around the state.
>
>Jody
>
>
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