Progress on soundblaster driver and comparison on dectalk versus doubletalk

["Alan Gordon" <ag3p@hotmail.com>]

All,

Does anyone know if there has been any progress on an emacspeak driver 
for standard sound cards, that is, something like a soundblaster?

I am getting ready to purchsaae either the dectalk or doubletalk and 
just wanted to check first if anyone is working on a driver for standard 
sound cards currently.  If anyone is working on this, is there an 
estimated date of completion?

I have gotten a bit of feedback that the dectalk is better than the 
doubletalk in the sense that it is capable of speaking faster than the 
doubletalk -- this I got from one user.  

The dectalk sells for about three times what the doubletalk sells for.  
Does anyone else have any feedback to give me on these two cards before 
I make the decision as to which to purchase?  I am really right now more 
inclined to purchase the dectalk because I think I might as well just 
get the best since I will be using it a lot.  I just wanted to be sure 
if I could that the dectalk is worth the extra money.

The two prices I've got so far for the two synthesizers are:
$960 for dectalk from LS&S group.
$310 for doubletalk LT, which is the external version, from Voila 
technology inc.

Also, has anyone found any resellers with better prices than these?

Thanks for your help.
ag3p@hotmail.com

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