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- Welcome to Amiga Voice Recognition and AniMan.
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- This is version 4.1 of AniMan which allows you to converse with an
- animated talking head through your audio digitizer in order to execute
- CLI commands, ARexx commands, or ARexx scripts by voice command. AniMan
- is completely multitasking and will run in the background, continuously
- listening for your voice command. With AniMan you can launch multiple
- applications or control any program with an ARexx capability by conversation
- with an animated talking head. Improvements over earler versions include
- background multitasking operation, the capability to load alternate command
- files by spoken voice command, a choice of Amiga hardware timers to reduce
- interference with other programs, and support for three audio digitizers;
- Perfect Sound 3, Sound Master (Sound Magic), and Generic digitizers.
- AniMan is compatible with NTSC and PAL. Copy voice.library (version 6.4)
- to libs: before running AniMan. Note that is is VERY IMPORTANT that if
- you have been using earlier versions of voice.library, that you REBOOT
- YOUR AMIGA after installing voice.library version 6.4. Otherwise, the
- older version of voice.library will remain in memory, and VCLI52 will not
- work correctly.
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- Note for GVP DSS 8 users. You can use DSS 8 with AniMan in the Generic
- digitizer mode. However, since GVP does not release technical information
- regarding the DSS 8, I have not been able to provide software gain
- adjustment. The process to use is as follows. First connect your DSS 8
- digitizer and run the "DSS" program supplied by GVP with your digitizer.
- Open the Sampler Control Panel and select Input parameters to be used
- (I suggest left channel, sampler gain 8, and microphone input with filter).
- Then select "Monitor" to activate the DSS 8 digitizer with the input
- parameters you have selected.
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- Without disturbing the digitizer, exit the "DSS" program and run AniMan.
- As long as you do not choose another digitizer, or load a vocabulary file
- that was recorded using another digitizer, AniMan will operate correctly
- with the DSS 8 digitzer. Note that if you have used another digitizer
- previously, you may have to delete "CommandFile.name" file before running
- AniMan, since the presence of this file causes AniMan to automatically load
- the last vocabulary file you have recorded.
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- I will be most happy to assist anyone attempting to use voice.library in
- their own programs. I can be reached on-line as:
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- GENIE RHORNE
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- PORTAL RHorne
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- UseNet RHorne@cup.portal.com
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- Long Live the Amiga!
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- Richard Horne
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