WOw, remember the old Accent? Yep, now there was an interesting VOice. 
SPeaking of synthesizers, I was digging through my junk box and found a Doubletalk LT that I'm probably going to find a home for since I haven't any machines that have serial ports. Might even have a serial to USB adapter around here, but not a box I need any longer.

On May 19, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Curtis Delzer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have a KeyNote gold, still works fine, if I had a working com port. 
> I have a USB to serial adapter, only thing is all I get there is 
> "time out errors."
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> At 07:26 AM 05/19/13, you wrote:
>> I still have a votrax pss.  I don't know if it still works!
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Gammon
>> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:06 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Need opinion
>> 
>> Man, I think it's amazing how ye'all get your nickers in a knott when it
>> comes to synthesized speech.  I come from the days of the old external
>> speech box made by votrax and I appreciated that.  However, having said
>> that, I do appreciate the new higher quality voices but am not partial to
>> one over another.    73, Jim WA6EKS
>> 
>> ---Original Message-----
>> From: Butch Bussen
>> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:08 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Need opinion
>> 
>> I like the voice on the book sense much better.  If you're not needing
>> small size, I also have a bookport dt (desktop) which has a great text
>> to speech.
>> 73
>> Butch
>> WA0VJR
>> Node 3148
>> Wallace, ks.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 18 May 2013, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>> 
>>> I hate the stream voice so much, that I take my bookshare books, open them
>>> in k1000, and save them with the voice I like, as mp3 files.  Then I play
>>> them on the player.  I absolutely love my milestone 312, but I don't think
>>> the synthesizer is much better than the stream is.  I think most of the
>>> book
>>> reader devices, try to sound like voice-over, which is awful if you read
>>> at
>>> any speed, because it mumbles.
>>> 
>>> Synthesized voice choices are as personal as anything, one is beloved by
>>> one
>>> person and hated by another.  Personally, the old doubletalk speech is the
>>> best.  That's for me, and people here will insist I am as crazy as a loon.
>>> Get voice samples of the TTS engines, or do what I do, and convert text to
>>> mp3 and play that.
>>> 
>>>