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SOFTWARE: Better sounding, more comprehensible BackTalk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Samuel Audet)
Fri Feb 13 02:48:02 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 05 Feb 1998 11:03:00 -0500
From: guardia@nospam-cam.org (Samuel Audet)
Reply-To: guardia@nospam-cam.org (Samuel Audet)
Reply-to: guardia@nospam-cam.org (Samuel Audet)
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I have the possibility to use a better Voice Synthesizer for BackTalk than
RSynth that sounds a lot better, and that also has the possibility to
support more than one language. Unfortunately, it also costs money. I need
to ask US$20 for one copy of such a Backtalk. If you want to have a better
sounding, more comprehensible BackTalk, please let me know. If enough
people respond, I will start asking for pre-orders since I can't take all
the risk on myself. Thank you for your comprehension. Just as side note,
BackTalk could be used as a Screen Reader/2 synthesizer if only I knew how
Screen Reader/2 works (is there a free SDK for it?).
You can try WAV files made by this synthesizer as well as demo programs
allowing you to try it out on your own text files at
http://www.elan.fr/speech/ttsdemo.htm
The current version of BackTalk 2.01 can be gotten at
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/archives/btalk201.zip as well as on various OS/2
archives site.
Here is a description of BackTalk:
BackTalk 2.01 A FREE Speech System for OS/2
Available from my homepage:
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/archives/btalk201.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 conveniently 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
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