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SAYTIME
By Laith Farjo
INTRODUCTION:
SayTime is a program that will, upon loading, announce itself and then hide
in memory. You will then be able to run most other programs as you would
normally. But, when a special trigger key is pressed, SayTime will speak the
time while you are inside another program.
REQUIREMENTS:
IBM PC or compatible with at least 128K is required to run SayTime. 128K
will not allow you to do very much so more memory is highly recommended.
DISCLAIMER:
In no event will the author of SayTime, Laith Farjo, be liable to you or any
other party for any damages, including loss of profits, loss of savings, or any
other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of or
inability to use this program, even if I have been advised of the possibility
of such damages.
A NOTE TO THE PROSPECTIVE USER:
SayTime is being distributed in the Public Domain. It may be copied and
shared freely, but MAY NOT be sold. If you enjoy and/or find SayTime of value
a minimal contribution of $5 will be *greatly* appreciated and will encourage
the author to write further programs. Contributors will also be the first to
be notified of any updates to SayTime.
Please send contributions to:
Laith Farjo
5924 East Joy Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Well, now that we've got the business out of the way, let's get down to
business:
HOW TO USE SAYTIME:
Before SayTime can be loaded, the speech module T-SPEECH.COM (modified
SPEECH.COM by Andy McGuire) must be loaded FIRST.
SayTime can be loaded with the following options:
a : The program will also announce whether it is AM or PM.
v : The program will preface the time by the statement "The time is:".
Sample loadings at the DOS prompt:
SAYTIME /a
SAYTIME -av
SAYTIME
As you probably have noticed, the option separator does not matter, so choose
anyone you feel most comfortable with or you don't have to use one at all
(there must be a space after "SAYTIME", though).
SayTime will load, display a non-destructive title screen, and will wait for
you to press a key. When you do so, the window will disappear and you will be
free to run most any other program.
When you press the ALT-F10 key (accomplished by holding down the ALT key while
pressing F10), SayTime will speak the time and then return you to whatever you
were doing.
MEMORY USAGE:
SayTime works in conjunction with T-Speech. They are both memory resident
and therefore use up some of your computer's memory. SayTime and T-Speech
require approximately 33K and 21K, respectively. Therefore, the whole system
will occupy about 54K in memory.
The SayTime module can be unloaded and freed from memory. This can be
accomplished by pressing Control-Home AT THE DOS LEVEL.
NOTE: IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO NOT TRY TO UNLOAD MEMORY WHILE INSIDE
ANOTHER PROGRAM. THIS WILL CAUSE A "HOLE" TO BE LEFT IN DOS AND
UNEXPECTED RESULTS COULD OCCUR.
The T-Speech module cannot be removed from memory without rebooting or
turning off the computer.
MANY THANKS TO:
Andy McGuire: He wrote SPEECH.COM (which is copyrighted by him). This
includes ALL the speech synthesis work (I had *no* part in this..).
Lane H. Ferris and Neil J. Rubenking: They wrote the memory resident
template (STAYRES.PAS and associated files) that was also used to write
SayTime.
Jim Margarit: He modified SPEECH.COM (and renamed it to T-SPEECH) and
created TURBOLIP.COM to enable it to be called from Turbo Pascal (also
copyrighted), which was used to write SayTime.
______________
If you have any problems/comments/criticisms you can contact me by the
following ways:
1. On Compuserve - my user ID is 75136,3422.
2. On the Inanet BBS - (313) 665-4472. Please leave the message in
either the IBM or the Private message area.
3. You could always just send me old fashioned mail by my address above.
Well, I guess that does it. Have fun and enjoy!