"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.

 M*i*k*e

... In Heaven there is no DOS...
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30