# DECtalk™ Licensed Products

Digital Equipment Corporation licenses the DECtalk text-to-speech technology in addition to providing their own hardware and software based products.

In the assistive products market, the technology has been licensed for four major application categories. They are:

- "Reading" Systems, scanner/OCR/TTS, applications for the blind and visually impaired.
- Voice Output Communication Aids (VOCA) for non-verbal individuals.
- File Readers for listening to ASCII text files.
- Learning Systems to provide audio feedback for reading.

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## Reading Systems

A reading machine is an electronic appliance that scans a printed page which records and translates the scanned words into text via an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) card or software. Then through an internal Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesizer, the text is then converted to speech output.

### Reading products available with licensed DECtalk™ Text-To-Speech Synthesizer.

The following products are listed by product name, product function, company, address and contact info.

An Open Book
Arkenstone, Inc.
555 Oakmead Parkway
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
800-444-4443
408-245-5900
fax: 328-8484
WWW Page

OsCar
TeleSensory
455 N. Bernadino Ave.
P.O. Box 7455
Mountain View, CA 94039
800-227-8418
415-960-0920

Personal Reader
&
Reading Edge™
Xerox Imaging Systems
KRM Division
9 Centennial Drive
Peabody, MA 01960
800-343-0311
508-977-2100

Rainbow
Robotron Pty. Ltd
222 St. Kilda Road
ST. Kilda 3182
Australia
(03) 525-5300
Fax (03) 525- 3560

ReadMan™
Schamex
19443 Superior St
Northridge, CA 91324
818-772-6644
Fax 993-2946

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## Voice Output Communication Aides

DECtalk™ speech synthesis technology is licensed and integrated to third party products intended for use by people with disabilities. This licensing program facilitates the widespread availability and use of Digital's DECtalk™ speech synthesis technology in a manner that complements the DECtalk™ based assistive products developed internally. For example, it is licensed for integration in third party Voice Output Communication Aids, commonly known as 'VOCAs'. These devices are extremely useful tools for communicating with DECtalk™ speech output and a variety of forms of input, on behalf of non-verbal individuals or those with other forms of disability which affects communicate via speech.

## VOCAs and Augmentitive Communication Software

The following two tables provide information about VOCAs that incorporate the DECtalk text-to-speech synthesis technology and about VOCA software products that support DECTalk text-to-speech synthesizers like the DECtalk PC and DECtalk Express.

### VOCA's available with licensed DECtalk™ Speech Synthesis.

The following products are listed by product name, product function, company, address and contact info.

LightWRITER SL35
ZYGO Industries Inc.
P.O. Box 1008
Portland, OR 97207
800-234-6006

Multi-Voice
Institute on Applied Technology
Children'sHospital
300 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115
617-735-6998

Touch Talker
Prentke Romich Co.
1022 Heyl Road
Wooster, OH 44691
800-262-1984

DynaVox
Sentient Systems
2100 Wharton Street
Pittsburg, PA 15203
800-344-1778

Vois 160
Phonic Ear Inc
250 Camino Alto
Mill Valley, CA 94941
800-227-0735

Say-It-All
Say-It-Simply
Scan-It-All
Innocomp
26219 Emery Rd, Ste 302
Warrenville Heights, OH 44128
800-382-8622

### Augmentative Communication S/W which support DECtalk text-to-speech synthesizers.

The following products are listed by product name, product function, company, address and contact info.

POPCOMM &
ONEKEY
Pointer Systems Inc.
One Mill St.
Burlinton, VT 05401
802-658-3260

E Z Keys
words +, inc.
40015 N. Bernadino Ave.
Palmdale, CA 93550
800-869-8521

Handichat
Handikey
Microsystems Software Inc.
600 Worcester Rd.
Framingham, MA 01701
800-828-2600

WriteAway
Institute on Applied Technology
Children's Hospital
300 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115
617-735-6998

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# File Readers

The following products are listed by product name, product function, company, address and contact info.

Sound Blaster™ 16 w/ ASP
(Includes "Text Assist" application)
Creative Labs. Inc.
1901 McCarthy Blvd
Milpitas, CA 95035
408-428-6622

Advanced Wave Effects 32 w/ ASP
(Includes "Text Assist" application)
Creative Labs, Inc.
1901 McCarthy Blvd
Milpitas, CA 95035
408-428-6622

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# Learning Systems

The following products are listed by product name, product function, company, address and contact info.

BookWise
Xerox Imaging Systems
KRM Division
9 Centennial Drive
Peabody, MA 01960
800-343-0311
508-977-2100
Their Home

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