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FREEWARE: BackTalk 2.0 Speech System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Samuel Audet)
Tue Dec 23 16:18:23 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 23 Dec 1997 15:05:00 -0500
From: guardia@nospam-cam.org (Samuel Audet)
Reply-To: guardia@nospam-cam.org
Reply-to: guardia@nospam-cam.org
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BackTalk 2.0 A FREE Speech System for OS/2
Available from my homepage: http://www.cam.org/~guardia/archives/btalk20.zip
Requires EMX libraries: ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9c/emxrt.zip
A dictionary is highly recommended. There is a free American English at:
ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/dictionaries/cmudict/cmudict.0.4.Z
or as a ZIP file at
http://www.cris.com/~djd/CMUDict.zip
Features:
Robust and Responsive Multi-Threaded Server Interface
- Volume control
- Amplification
- Sound mute/unmute
- Queue purge
- Queue status watcher
- Quick and clean exit
Support for External Programs and REXX
- Available external functions to any program and REXX script.
Included Clients:
E-Mail Notifier
Instead of just a wav file saying "You have received mail", how about
"You have received mail from <name>, the subject is <subject>"?
- Tested with PMMail, Post Road Mailer, MR/2 ICE and Internet
Adventurer.
Speaking Clock
- Speaks the time exactly as it shows up at a regular interval that
_you_ want.
- Supports International, Civil and Offset mode.
Speaking IRC
Now you can hear what you friends are saying on IRC while typing in
your word processor or even cooking.
- Supports various option to select what type of message to speak
(private, public, addressed to you, ctcp, notify list, etc.), and
also convieniently tells you of which type the message processed was.
- Supports voice settings per nickname.
- Tested with GTIRC and Internet Adventurer.
Speaking Timer
- Supports a normal and urgent mode that gets enabled at a specified
amount of time left. Both have their own messages and lap between
these spoken message event. Another message is available as an alarm.
--
Samuel Audet <guardia@nospam-cam.org>
(aka Guardian) http://www.cam.org/~guardia
-> At Warp speed, Windows should not be open. ->
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