Computer Peripherals to Help Break the Bounds of Silence
The economists and retail analysts say that the recession has put the crunch on Christmas shopping budgets. I saw one of these experts on the tube the other day saying that most people are looking for a Christmas present that everybody will like but still costs less than $50.</br></br>How to find this elusive item? If youÛªre a computer-owning family, thereÛªs a pretty good solution. Just go out and buy your personal computer a voice.</br></br>There are a lot of PC peripherals on the market that will make your computer put out high-quality stereo sound you might never have thought possible if all youÛªve ever heard is the occasional beep emanating from its tiny built-in speaker.</br></br>These devices can produce either music, sound effectsÛÓsuch as a wailing siren, a rat-a-tat machine gun, the boom of an explosionÛÓor digitalized speech that sounds pretty close to the human voice heard over a radio.</br></br>A sound-synthesizer peripheral is not a particularly new invention. ItÛªs been around for years. WhatÛªs new is the advent of sound