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- From: MHFP93A@prodigy.com (Roger Nystrom)
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- Subject: Re: Hearsay 1000 , Does anybody want it?
- Date: 14 Apr 1996 06:36:57 GMT
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- >: I bough this about 10 yr. ago and probablely don't have a total of 10
- >: hours on it. If anyone is interested in it I will sale it to the
- >: highest BID that I get this week.
- >
- >: Steve
- >
- >uh...what is it?
-
- It's an early-80's speech synthesizer. Remember back in the 80's when
- everyone wanted to make their computer talk, and a dozen "synthesizers"
- came out? This is one of them that plugs into the cartridge port and has
- a microphone so that you can tell it what to do. This "voice control"
- never really worked too well, as can be seen from the demo software it
- came with, such as this children's program to recognize shapes.
- Sometimes it won't recognize what you say and crash, or will respond to
- something not sounding remotely CLOSE to what you were supposed to have
- said. It's fun for a little while, has a screen-read option, and can
- attempt to say anything you type. It also has adjustable voice pitch,
- speed, etc.
-
- 7572!
- -Roger
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-