Re: Pilot Email and reading on the road.

[Jim Koelkebeck <Jim.Koelkebeck@East>]

You need to get online with Circuit Cellar magazine.  One of the contributers
lives for little projects like this and could probably direct you to a better
(more modern) speach IC.  Radio Shack (spit) had some things along this line
a while back.

In all, this is an outstanding idea - be sure to make the box such that it
can be velcro'd to a steering wheel.

> 
> I bought an ISA card that was featured in a Linux Journal article. The
> board features the original text to vice ship from the "Speak and Spell".
> Any text sent throught the serial port on the board would be spoke. The
> reason for being ISA is only for a power source. I also bought the
> optional external power supply and assembled them in a box. The board also
> has a speaker and an RCA jack.
> 
> If this thing could be adapted to power from a cigarette lighter in a car,
> then software could read your e-mail to you on the road. Mind you, it
> would be monotone and sound like a steretypical robot (like in the movie
> War Games).
> 
> -Todd
> 
> On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> > 		2.  I find the email (and web pages) that I would like to read at a 
> > 			later time (Like when I am driving, I velcro the pilot to my steering
> > 			wheel - NOTE For real Men (geeks) only) and right-click on the title of
> > 
> > Yikes!  This is as scary as people who drive reading the newspaper!  I
> > like to keep my full attention on the road -- and I'll bet I have a
> > lot less traffic to worry about than you do.
> > -- 
> > Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D.       Phone -- (505) 646-1605
> > Department of Computer Science       FAX   -- (505) 646-1002
> > New Mexico State University          http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
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