-> "James Bradley" bravely wrote to "Mike Ross" (03
Jul 05  21:08:34)
->  --- on the heady topic of "Voice Reader"

->  JB> MIKE ROSS wrote to James Bradley, "Voice Reader" on
07-01-05 22:28
->  MR> IIRC the Soundblaster 16 was bundled with a text to speech reader.

->  JB> Do you recall if it is a DOS executable? I just *know* we can bloat
->  JB> this chore rather quickly. I would suppose the DOS program could
->  JB> launch a windows program, but then could they exchange text...

->  JB> The one I was thinking of, would launch from a DOS CLI, and either
->  JB> reside as a TSR, or spawn when called upon.

->  JB> "Anybody... Bueler?" 


-> Hehehe, great coming of age movie...

-> I have the SB software on one old drive. Last tried it in win95. I
-> started the text to speech software and simply opened the files in it.
-> I may have tried dragging a file onto the text to speech icon. There
-> were some dos drivers too. Yes, I recall now running some DOS tsr that
-> was called up by a keystroke combination and turned on the text to
-> speech. Did a DIR IIRC... or a TYPE... not clear which now.

sbtalker filename.txt /w out of DOS not only reads
aloud  the text file but writes it to the screen as it reads it.

Currently out of action here until I replace the CMOS battery
in the 486.
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