[Blindapple] textalker review commands

Jayson Smith jaybird at bluegrasspals.com
Thu Oct 15 00:33:26 EDT 2020


Hi,

Once you're on a line and want to read character by character, hit the 
letter T. This toggles between arrows reading words or characters. If 
you want to hear each punctuation mark as you arrow over it in review 
mode, hit the letter A.

Hope this helps,

Jayson

On 10/15/2020 12:05 AM, Tiny Puppy-butchb wrote:
> Does anyone remember these?  I can get into review move and move up 
> and down a line, but not sure how to read the line or spell a word.  I 
> haven't messed with this stuff for 30 years or so I guess.  Fun 
> playing with the 2 e though.  As soon as I get things talking to each 
> other, I'll make some disk images.
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Jayson Smith <mailto:jaybird at bluegrasspals.com>
> *To:* Blind Apple Discussions <mailto:blindapple at bluegrasspals.com> ; 
> Apple Discussions <mailto:blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 14, 2020 9:00 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Blindapple] Mockingboard
>
> Hi,,
>
> There was a version or two of the Echo speech synthesizer card which 
> included a Mockingboard-compatible music synthesizer, though I don't 
> remember which ones did.
>
> Jayson
>
> On 10/14/2020 8:09 PM, joseph.norton at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi listers:
>>
>> In my a0pple days, all I had was the 2e, the Echo and one 5-1/4 disk 
>> drive.
>>
>> I know some used a slotbuster or doubletalk, but, I’m hearing about a 
>> peripheral called the mockingboard.
>>
>> Did that have speech capability and was it ever used by blind folks 
>> for access?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
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