Re: Dectalk 5 test results.

[Adam Myrow <amyrow midsouth rr com>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Thomas Ward wrote:

> There is certainly a difference in quality between 4.6.4 and 5.0. The
> 4.6.4 version used at the csun conference sounded to me quite a bit like
> the classic Dectalk voice. With the 5.0 version I noticed the voice
> sounds like it has a head cold, kind of a stuffed nose sound, and also a
> bit of a foreign accent or something to it.

There is also a very annoying bug in the Dectalk 5.0.  If you use any of 
several compound words that start with "fire," it pronounces them weirdly 
with a phantom Euro symbol getting inserted, then proceeds to butcher the 
rest of the line.  Anybody else hear this?  Examples of words that trigger 
this are firetruck, and fireflies.

On another note, does Fonix still offer the Dectalk RT for Linux?