Druaga1 has a handful of videos about his working unit. I believe it takes specific software to drive it if I recall correctly. If it's impossible to locate elsewhere, he's the sort of person to respond to a comment and get back to you with a disk image.

As for value, I see one on eBay for nearly $200, far too much in my estimation. DECTalk hasn't really changed all that greatly so it's only valuable in a useful sense to a likely very small number of people who find themselves with a failed ISA-based DECTalk system that absolutely cannot be replaced.

Of course, the number of people who would be interested because it's neat is probably pretty high. You can count me among them.

Hmm. My instinct as to their value lies somewhere in the $25-$75 range, but again, I have no idea... I don't know how scarce they are, or just how many people would actually want to buy one.

Of course, I would keep one or two for my personal use 😎

@keenmaster486 - I registered to this forum just to reply to this thread! Do you still have any of those cards for sale?

If you found that many, I suspect they may have been from NOAA weather service as they retired these Dectalk with a new and more modern Speech Synthesis project.
You can read about it here: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/06/15/noaa … is-name-is-paul

edit: fixed typos.

webjoe wrote on 2020-08-04, 06:32:

@keenmaster486 - I registered to this forum just to reply to this thread! Do you still have any of those cards for sale?

If you found that many, I suspect they may have been from NOAA weather service as they retired these Dectalk with a new and more moder Speech Synthesis project.
You can read about it here: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/06/15/noaa … is-name-is-paul

Hmmm, you may be right about this. The background here is I found them at the University of Colorado's recycle center in Boulder, CO. They may have come from some university lab, or possibly from NIST which is right next door. NIST does run the national time service on shortwave which uses a computerized voice to read the time, so that could have been it in addition to NOAA.

I do still have a couple of the cards. I sold most of them. The couple that I retained, if I remember right, have issues... probably just bad capacitors that I could fix but if you are interested I could try them again and see if I was just goofing up the first time I tested them.

No sales on Vogons!!!

By popular demand unlocked the thread again.
A reminder: there are no sales on Vogons. Next time someone asks to buy it stays closed or the user asking gets banned 😉
(And yes, I know Keenmaster did not intend this thread for selling the cards)

Noted! Sorry, clearly a newb here.