Family Support Division
Rehabilitation Services for the Blind

Software: Speech Synthesizers

All products listed in this section use the computer's sound card and speakers.

Digital Equipment Corp.

111 Powder Mill Rd.
Maynard, MA 01754
(800) 344-4825
DEC Access 32: This software synthesizer is supported by many commonly available screen readers. The sound is identical to that of the DEC hardware synthesizers.

Dolphin Computer Access

100 S. Ellsworth Ave. Fourth floor
San Mateo, CA 94401
voice phone: (650) 348-7401
fax: (650) 348-7403
e-mail: sales@dolphinusa.com
Web site: http://www.dolphinusa.com
Orpheus: A software synthesizer that works with any 16-bit sound card.

HumanWare

6245 King Rd.
Loomis, CA 95650
voice phone: (916) 652-7253
or (800) 722-3393
Web site: http://www.humanware.com
This company is the U.S. distributor for Pulse Data's Keynote Gold Multimedia software synthesizer. Most screen reader packages will work with this synthesizer, and it works in the Windows 3.x, 9x, and DOS operating environments.

Microsoft Corporation

Redmond, WA
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
Microsoft has designed and built its text-to-speech engine. Like many of the software and hardware synthesizers discussed in this section, the Microsoft synthesizer is capable of multiple voices.

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