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SPEECH is a program written by Andy McGuire which generates speech on
the IBM-PC. When run, it performs a "terminate and stay resident",
becoming available as a background function, usable by other programs.
It is generally distributed with a BASIC program named TALKDEMO.BAS,
which shows how to use the SPEECH function from BASIC.
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Now you can have regular English text files spoken out-loud! Finally a true
software speech synthesizer has been developed for the IBM PC and compatibles!
TXT2SPCH.EXE will convert plain English text to phoneme strings and then pass
them on to the SAY.COM program to be spoken by the SPEECH.COM program. It is
possible to send a whole text file to the TXT2SPCH.EXE program to be spoken.
Run the RUN-ME.BAT file for a demonstration of it's text file reading ability.
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SAY is a short driver program written by Thom Henderson which passes it's
command line arguments to the SPEECH function, thus allowing batch files to
generate speech.
You MUST install SPEECH before SAY will work. SPEECH is installed simply by
running it. It only needs to be run once. SAY will complain if SPEECH is not
installed. SAY MUST be present for the TXT2SPCH program to work. The RUN-ME
file will install the SPEECH program before beginning the demonstration of
the TXT2SPCH program.
SPEECH supports thirty six phonemes, which are specified as one or two
character codes. They follow below, with example words having the sound of
the phoneme in capitols.
a - tApe ae - hAt
ah - fAther aw - AWful
b - Book ch - CHurch
d - Dog ee - fEEt
eh - sEt f - Find
g - Get h - Hope
i - I ih - sIt
j - Just k - King
l - Look m - Make
n - New oh - hOe
oo - bOOt p - Peek
r - Ring s - See
sh - SHeep t - Tool
th - tooTH tz - THe
u - lOOk uh - Up
v - View w - Window
wh - Where y - You
z - Zoo zh - fudGE
Phonemes may be given in either upper case or lower case. Phonemes are
separated with a dash. Words are separated with a space. For
example, to say "this is a test", you would type:
say tz-ih-s ih-z ah t-eh-s-t-t