Atari Speed Reading CX4126 (C) 1981 Atari, Inc. ; please use with BASIC cartridge.#
Introduction#
Atari Speed Reading is not just another Voice & Data program from Atari. It is the(!) template how a Voice & Data cassette has to be digitized. Peter Dell and Stefan Meyer had made a masterpiece here, showing us, how this can be done. First, we have a marvelous recording with the best parameters, which made the nowadays standard for recording Atari cassettes. Second, we have a manual in a top condition to quickly and easy find entries for the users and third, we have here an incredible good separation of the Voice & Data layers for further needs.
Peter Dell and Stefan Meyer recording Atari Speed Reading CX4126
Abstract#
Do it yourself self paced program, in only 30 days of practice you can increase your Reading, Speed and Comprehension. 8 Workbook units / lessons with 6 Elements in each unit (Warm-Up Exercise / Phrase-Reading Exercise / Paced and Timed Readings / New Techniques / Flexible Reading / Reading Progress Graph, also includes Voice-over Audio track which provides encouragement and instructions while the programs are loading. Requires an Atari Joystick, 410 or 1010 cassette recorder and the Atari BASIC cartridge. Ages 15 - adult. Requires 16K RAM. Thank you
Bradley Koda from best-electronics-ca
for the text.
References#
Box#
Atari Speed Reading CX4126
Manuals#
Separation of Voice & Data#
After recording a cassette in the WAV-format, we can see the following picture in a program called Audacity:
Voice & Data track of a typical Voice & Data - Atari cassette ; thanks to tschak909 from AtariAge for the screenshot
The voice layer is at the top, the data layer at the bottom. With Audacity it is possible to separate the 2 layers. For Atari users with a Mac, this is important, because the emulator Atari800MacX in version 4.6.0 from Mark Grebe is not ready to read in WAV-files. Mark will take a look at that, when he has finished his PhD. Up to that time the Mac users must have that separation in order to use Voice & Data cassettes.
Images:#
Atari Speed Reading cassettes
Atari Speed Reading box
Atari Speed Reading ad 1
Atari Speed Reading ad 2
Atari Speed Reading ad 3
Atari Speed Reading ad 4
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