Those with the FTDI chip set seem to be the best.


ATB

David W Wood 

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On Behalf Of COLLEEN ROTH
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 3:50 PM
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Subject: Re: Need opinion

Hi Curtis,
I was told that some USB to serial port converters work better than others.
Colleen Roth



----- Original Message -----
From: Curtis Delzer <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013 1:18 pm
Subject: Re: Need opinion

>
>
> 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."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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
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> >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
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> >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.
> > >
> > >