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- Board Mouth III
- Flight Manual
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- Mouth III is a terminal program/file reader with speech output for
- EssTee computers. Mouth III will run in any resolution. The following
- files are required (and must be in the same directory/folder) :
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- MouthIII.Prg
- MouthIII.Rsc
- Speech.Tos
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- Terminal :
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- Terminal
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- Under the 'Terminal' drop down menu, select 'Terminal'. The
- Mouth III terminal recognizes the EsTees extended VT52 command set.
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- FOR BEST RESULTS :
- Leave voice toggled OFF until you've logged in and are ready
- to receive text from the host (bbs) computer. Likewise, toggle the
- voice back OFF before logging out. Also, see 'Carrier Chk' below.
-
- To exit the terminal mode, press <Esc>ape. Mouth III will send
- a pause to the host. When you re-enter the terminal mode, the
- host will resume where you left off. NOTE : If voice is toggled
- ON, Mouth III will finish talking, so it may take a few moments
- before your <Esc>ape is recognized.
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-
- Set Baud
-
- Select to change the baud rate (initially set to 1200 baud).
- The baud rate may be set to 300, 1200, or 2400 baud (higher
- baud rates would be impractical).
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- Set Duplex
-
- Most host systems use FULL DUPLEX and Mouth III is initially
- set for full duplex. If the host doesn't echo your characters,
- select HALF DUPLEX.
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-
- Set Flow
-
- The 'flow' is the protocol that is used between the terminal
- program and the host to communicate the need to temporarily stop
- transmission. Mouth III is initially set to XON/XOFF. Different
- host systems may require some experimentation.
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- Carrier Chk
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- If the host system hangs up on Mouth III while speech is being
- output, there is a good chance that problems will occur. To attempt
- to avoid this problem, toggle the Carrier Chk ON. This will force
- Mouth III to monitor the carrier signal from the modem and stop
- speech output as soon as possible when the carrier signal is lost.
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- NOTE: Not all modems/cables are set up for proper carrier detect.
- Inexpensive cables don't always have all the proper connect-
- ions and modems can be set to force a carrier signal where
- there is none.
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- If you have Carrier Chk toggled ON and Mouth III won't talk, you'll
- know for sure that your set up is incorrect (or incomplete).
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- Buffering
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- Host systems all work differently. Some send out a character (or
- a few characters) at a time and then check for incoming characters,
- while some send any number of characters before checking for input.
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- For example : Michtron BBS ( (c) Michtron ) responds quite well
- and needs no buffering while one PC bbs I encountered sent
- something like 512 characters before monitoring for incoming
- characters, requiring buffering to be toggled ON.
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- Mouth III's signals to the host to pause for speech output can get
- ignored because of this causing a run-on of input to Mouth III.
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- Initially, buffering is off. If Mouth III seems to be losing char-
- acters, then try toggling Buffering ON.
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- In General
-
- Some host systems require Control C to perform some functions.
- Unfortunately, Control C aborts the synthesizer program (and thus
- Mouth III). If you need to send a Control C, use the ~ and
- Mouth III will translate the ~ character and send a Control C
- to the host system.
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- To use :
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- 1.) Enter Terminal Mode with voice OFF.
- 2.) Use your modem commands to call a host system.
- 3.) Once you're logged in and ready to receive text,
- (ie... you're ready to read a database or messages),
- toggle voice ON.
- 4.) Before you log out, toggle voice OFF.
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- Reader :
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- Load File
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- Use 'Load File' to load a TEXT file into ram. Once a file is
- loaded it will remain in ram until a new file is loaded and the
- menus, 'Show File' and 'Repeat File' will become visible.
-
- The file may be any ASCII TEXT file from any folder.
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- Show File
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- Does just what it says. To have speech output, be sure to toggle
- voice ON. Press the spacebar to pause/resume the output. Press
- <Esc>ape to quit to the menus (if voice is ON, Mouth III will
- finish the current speech output before exiting to the menus).
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- Repeat File
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- Works just like Show File, except the file is repeated endlessly.
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- In General
-
- To use :
-
- 1.) Load the file.
- 2.) Toggle Voice ON.
- 3.) Show (or Repeat) the file.
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- Misc :
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- Voice
-
- Select 'Voice' to toggle voice on/off. There will be a check
- mark next to 'Voice' if it's activated. Initially, voice is
- NOT activated.
-
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- Set Speed/Set Pitch
-
- These options will alter the voice. They can also mung up the
- program and do strange things (including causing Mouth III to
- blow up 'real good').
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- Help On
-
- Selecting Help On will enable the Mouth III help system. To get
- help, just select any menu item. To disable the help system, select
- Help Off.
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- Quit
-
- If you can't figure this one out then I have a bridge for sale...
- A nice large bridge by the bay with PLENTY of traffic. Bids
- with LARGE non-refundable deposits are gladly accepted!
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- NOTES :
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- Mouth III will run with any ram configuration. If you get the message
- 'Ram Problem' when booting, or the program just won't come up properly,
- then there is a shortage of ram and you'll need to eliminate the problem
- (large ramdisks, accessories, etc...).
-
- A lot of testing went into Mouth III to finally stabilize the interface
- to the speech synthesizer (SPEECH.TOS). As far as I can tell (assuming
- the voice settings aren't changed), the speech synthesizer will now run
- forever without bombing as it had before in my programs and all other
- programs I've seen using it. (Some tests ran for as long as 14 hours
- before crashing, making the testing tedious and giving me a gray hair
- or two...)
-
- There are a LOT of improvements that I will be making in Mouth Iv. Please
- send me any comments, ideas or problems you have. I can be reached via
- Genie, Compuserve or my own bbs (The Board).
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- Board Mouth III
- (c) 1988 Gregg Hungerford (Compuserve 72115,540/Genie GHungerford)
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- NOTE :
- Board Mouth III may be considered Public Domain and may be FREELY
- DISTRIBUTED with the following provisions :
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- 1) This doc file (MouthIII.Doc) MUST accompany any copies distributed.
- 2) No changes shall be made to ANY of the Mouth III files.
- 3) Board Mouth III is not to be sold.
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- The Board - Fun Only/Message Oriented BBS (up six+ years and counting...)
- Silicon Valley 408/985-7573 (Pc Pursuit-able)
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- Developed using TDI/Modula-2/ST
- 0272-742796(UK),(214)340-4942(USA)
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- Thanks to Fred Brooks for providing the hooks into the p/d synthesizer.
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