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- OVERVIEW
- ========
-
- The SPEAK system consists of the following items:
-
- !Speak
- A simple talking text editor and reader application.
-
- !PhonEdit
- Pronunciation editor. This allows you to change the
- pronunciation of unusual words such as names. You need to
- install the JSDSPEAK font which is provided in the "Font"
- directory.
-
- !VoiceEdit
- Voice editor. This allows you to change the sound of the various
- voices. You can also select the default voice which is used by
- the Speak module.
-
- speakmod
- The speech synthesis module. It finds its data files in the
- "data" directory which is refered to by the Speak$Dir system
- variable.
-
- !RunTAYT
- This runs the Talk-as-you-Type module, which speaks words as
- you type them on the keyboard. This can be used with text
- typed into any application.
-
- !RunMODULE
- This just runs the Speak module.
-
- 3rdParty
- This directory contains information and programs to allow you to
- use the Speak module with PenDown, Phases, and the Voyager
- internet suite.
-
-
- Installing the IPA Font
- =======================
-
- In order to use the !PhonEdit pronunciation editor, you will need
- to install a font which includes characters from the International
- Phonetic Alphabet.
-
- Copy the font directory "Font.JSDSpeak" from the !Speak disc into
- the !Fonts directory on your system, and then restart your
- computer.
-
-
- Running on an ARM2 processor
- ============================
-
- The Speak module uses quite a bit of processing power.
- It struggles on an old, slow, ARM2 processor.
-
- The Speak module now detects automatically whether it is running on
- a processor without a cache (i.e. ARM2 or ARM250) and reduces the
- quality slightly in order to take less processing power.
-
- On an ARM2, it also restricts all Pitch Base values to a minimum
- value of 140. Higher pitched voices take less processing power.
- This causes the standard voice to have a higher pitch than it would
- have on other processors.
-
- If you are using a computer with an ARM2 processor, you will need
- to use Mode 12 rather a higher resolution screen mode.
-
-
- Spell Checker Data
- ==================
-
- In order o reduce the amount of memory used by the !Speak application,
- the spell checker data is now supplied in a separate directory, "SpellCheck".
- If you want to use the spell checker in the !Speak application, copy
- the "!Run" file and the "DataWP" directory from there into the !Speak
- application directory.