It was a bit confusing back in those days. Often the synthesizer hardware had a different name from the screen reader; but the sales people didn't tell us that. If you bought VERT Pro, the

Then, also, in the middle 90s, Telesensory came out with their "power" line of products. There were the PowerBaailles (Braille displays) and ScreenPower (the screen reader for DOS and Windows)

In the  middle to late 90s, I think, came Windows Bridge out of Canada.  It was a duel system.  Booted up under DOS but read the screen in both DOS and Windows 95.  It faded away when its creator

No Windows has ever been as stable as Windows 10, not Windows 7 and certainly not Windows XP. It always seems that after a long time old stuff seems like it was better than it really was.

I'll say one thing though, sometimes better sounding speech is used at the cost of intelligibility. For example, I have a Kyrosera Dura Extreme phone, which cost me about 250 dollars, and I thought

Wasn't that the first built off of windows NT? I think NT went to version 4.0 or maybe 4.something.

As much as I liked XP and still do, the one thing that always pissed me off about it was that if you were copying a file from one place to another, XP did not look at the free space available before

Good morning everyone, I dont know personally if jaws existed back in 1989, but I know for absolute 100% certainty that a really, really good screen reader for dos existed back in the Spring of 1989

And so it was too. But Windows XP takes a lot of beating. Cheers! On 3/11/2021 4:55 pm, Chris via groups.io wrote:

Hi, I think ESpeak is great, once you get used to it. It is more responsive than Eloquence, but of course, it is horses for courses. All the best Steve -- To subscribe to our News and

Yes, we use PayL8r, but it is not interest free unfortunately. Divide By was too expensive for me to take on. All the best Steve -- To subscribe to our News and Special Offers list, go

Yep, JAWS for Windows 3.1 was out, I used it. I also used Windows Bridge and Window-Eyes. For me, Window-Eyes was always the best screen reader, but Freedom killed it off. All the best Steve -- To

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Flipper and Tiny were also about in 1989. All the best Steve -- To subscribe to our News and Special Offers list, go to https://www.comproom.co.uk/subscribe Computer Room Services 77

And Vocal-Eyes. Oh and Hal from Dolphin. All the best Steve All the best Steve -- To subscribe to our News and Special Offers list, go to https://www.comproom.co.uk/subscribe

Billy, This year Sight and Sound ran the promotion in August. A new JAWS Home was £150 and £95 for an SMA which gives you two upgrades. The first would come out at the end of October. Paul

ED, I really liked Windoeyes in college, but never got the pleasure of using WE after college, Billy

hi ED, any idea, when the summer sales will take place?, Billy

guys, Count me out, Billy

hi Chris, for me you are so right, too expensive, Billy