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- .+*= EzSay v1.0 =*+.
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- Amiga Speech Synthesizer - Replacement tool for "Say" on OS2/3
- ©1993 Coded in assembler by Wai Hung Liu (Khul/Defekt)
- A Defekt production, released in Oct-Nov 1993.
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- About
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- EzSay was programmed because I thought the "official" Commodore
- Say utility just wasn't good enough. With the appearance of KickStart 2.0+
- Commodore are still using the archaic utility they supplied with machines
- that came with WorkBench 1.2!
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- The actual speech output from the Amiga is not great but it is a lot
- better than what other machines can offer, 16 bit or not. Obviously with
- the appearance of the DSP in future Amigas a program like this will be made
- redundant...
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- What I wanted when programming EzSay was to have a utility that
- let me experiment and have fun with speech. To take advantage of just some
- of the new features of the new operating systems, and to use proper gadgets,
- not just flimsy console windows.
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- So now you have the fruits of my hard work, EzSay!
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- Requirements
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- EzSay can be loaded from the CLI or WorkBench. EzSay is an auto-detaching
- program so you won't have to "run" EzSay - you will still retain use of
- your CLI or SHELL.
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- Several files are needed to run (these are included in the package):
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- narrator.device in your DEVS: drawer VOS2.0+
- translator.library in your LIBS: drawer V37
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- No other files are needed. These are standard files that should have been
- included on your WorkBench disks. Use at LEAST the versions listed above,
- the latest narrator.device is nearly 50k larger than the previous OS1.3
- version!
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- Usage
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- Just type some text into the string gadget, and click on the Action button
- to hear your Amiga speak!
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- A few of the gadgets are underscored and this means you can select them
- through keyboard shortcuts. Simple hold down SHIFT and the UNDERSCORED
- LETTER.
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- Following is a list of complete keyboard shortcuts:
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- SHIFT + A = Action (Speak!)
- SHIFT + RETURN = Action
- SHIFT + ESC = Quit
- SHIFT + M = Toggle mode
- SHIFT + S = Toggle sex
- SHIFT + F = Toggle filter
- SHIFT + T = Activate string gadget
- SHIFT + I = Information about EzSay
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- Final notes
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- Well I hope you like this little tool (only 5.5k! - less crunched!)
- The narrator.device provides a simple facility to draw synced "mouths" to
- expand in time with the speech. So why not include it? At the moment I
- don't see a point - unless you enjoy seeing a square box resizing itself...
- The actual data returned by the narrator.device is width and height...
- Anyway thanks to Poison/Nova=Curacao/Drinks for telling me about the
- oversight of the 68000 bug... oops! <Merci bien!> Greets are included in
- the actual program info. This program is placed into the public domain
- so spread it like hell (ok? 8-).
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- Bye... Amiga rules - Intel out!
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- [khu!/defekt and ascii unlimited]
- Wai Hung (Simon) Liu,
- 90 Terenure Road East,
- Dublin 6,
- Ireland.
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