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TALKER: Voice driver Script and Overlay for COM-AND
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TALKER driver Script and Overlay for COM-AND
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COM-AND, and the TALKER script-set (TALKER.CMD, TALKER.OVL et
al) are copyright 1992 by CABER Software. TALKER is distributed
with the COM-AND communications system as an accessory. TALKER
is intended for use ONLY with COM-AND. COM-AND is "shareware".
If you USE COM-AND after evaluating it, you MUST pay for it.
The complete user license and registration information is to be
found in the file REGISTER.DOC. Limitations on redistribution
of COM-AND are set out in the file VENDOR.DOC. These two files
are included with the COM-AND program release.
CABER Software
R. (Scott) McGinnis
P.O. Box 3607 Mdse Mart
Chicago, IL 60654-0607
GEnie, Delphi: TARTAN
CIS .......... 73147,2665
Internet ..... 73147.2665@compuserve.com
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TALKER: Voice driver Script and Overlay for COM-AND
TALKER version 1.1 is a part of the COM-AND communications package.
COM-AND is copyright 1992, by CABER Software. All rights are
reserved world wide, excepting redistribution under the shareware
concept. COM-AND is distributed freely and may be copied by anyone
for any number of machines, for purposes of evaluation.
Restrictions on redistribution are set out in the document file
VENDOR.DOC. You may NOT distribute COM-AND or its documentation in
connection with ANY commercial venture, product, publication or
service without written approval from CABER Software.
COM-AND is distributed as shareware. You may try COM-AND without
charge, to evaluate its usefulness to you. You may evaluate COM-AND
for a period of up to 30 days. If you continue to use COM-AND after
30 days, then you must pay for it. Please read REGISTER.DOC for the
terms and conditions of the User License.
The author supports COM-AND through electronic mail on the various
on-line services. Several BBSes focused on COM-AND exist at this
time. Voice support for COM-AND is also available from Support
EtCetera in Long Beach, CA. Please read REGISTER.DOC for details
on support, and COM-AND BBSes.
CABER Software is a member of the Association of Shareware Profes-
sionals (ASP). The ASP offers an ombudsman service to help you
resolve shareware related disputes with ASP members. Please read
the file REGISTER.DOC for information on how to contact the ASP
Ombudsman.
COM-AND is supplied "as-is" with no warranties expressed or implied.
Neither CABER software nor the author will be liable for any damages
or lost revenues incurred through the use of this program or any of
its accessories and utilities beyond the registration price paid.
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TALKER: Voice driver Script and Overlay for COM-AND
Table of Contents
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I. Introduction .............................................. page 1
A. What is COM-AND? ........................................ page 1
B. The VOICE.EXE Driver .................................... page 2
C. The TALKER.OVL overlay and TALKER.CMD script ............ page 2
D. The SPEECH.COM Driver ................................... page 3
E. This document ........................................... page 3
II. Using TALKER.CMD ........................................... page 4
III. TALKER.OVL programming ..................................... page 5
SCALL 6,Nx ; Open driver ............................... page 5
SCALL 9 ; Close driver .............................. page 6
SCALL 12,Sx,Nx ; Load exceptions ........................... page 6
SCALL 0,Sx ; Speak english text ........................ page 6
SCALL 3,Sx ; Speak phonetic text ....................... page 6
SCALL 15,Nx ; Set rate .................................. page 7
SCALL 18,Nx ; Set pitch ................................. page 7
SCALL 21,Sx ; Set driver file name ...................... page 7
IV. VOICEON, VOICEOFF, and TESTVOICE scripts ................... page 8
V. TALKER.OVL termination ..................................... page 9
VI. Program Requirements ....................................... page 10
VII. Program and Author Information ............................ page 11
Appendices
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A. VOICE.EXE arpabet .......................................... page 12
B. SPEECH.COM arpabet ......................................... page 13
C. Exception file ............................................. page 14
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I. Introduction
A. What is COM-AND?
COM-AND for the IBM PC and compatibles is a communications
program for use by itself, or for use with several integrated
accessory programs (which themselves may be used independent of
COM-AND). COM-AND provides standard comm program functions: a
dialing directory, macros, disk logging, binary and ASCII file
transfers, scripted execution and so on.
Four accessories are available for use with COM-AND at the date of
this writing. These accessories are for use over conferencing
services such as People/Link's PARTY, GEnie's RTC and CIS's CB:
PC-VCO provides a way to 'see' and 'hear' people talking.
CCHESS supports chess games with another conference user.
CBRIDG supports bridge games with other conference users.
CCOLOR tracks conference users, coloring each speaker's
received text differently
These accessories are available uploaded separately, not as a
part of COM-AND's release. Please refer to the accessory
documents for more detailed discussions of their function.
COM-AND executes as a CRT based comm program either in 25 line
text mode on a CGA or monochrome screen, or 25/43 line mode on an
EGA display. When an accessory is loaded through COM-AND (or when
COM-AND is loaded by an accessory), most of the functions of
COM-AND are available through the accessory.
COM-AND and its accessories (PC-VCO, CCHESS, CBRIDG, and CCOLOR)
may be copied freely and distributed to anyone for any number of
machines, for purposes of evaluation. The author offers COM-AND
as "shareware". If you USE COM-AND after evaluating it, you MUST
pay for it.
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TALKER: Voice driver for COM-AND Page 2
I. Introduction (continued)
B. The VOICE.EXE driver
VOICE.EXE is a TSR speaker driver performing phoneme (text) to
speech (sound) synthesis. VOICE.EXE was released with version 2.2
of PC-VCO. VOICE.EXE was created to support PC-VCO, with the
following goals:
o VOICE.EXE was not to be CPU speed dependant
o VOICE.EXE would run with any version of MS-DOS after 2.0
o VOICE.EXE would implement a broader 'arpabet' (the phoneme
set) compatible with the MacIntosh/Amiga arpabet
o VOICE.EXE would permit a limited variance of speech pitch
and speaking rate
o VOICE.EXE might be loaded 'on top' of COM-AND and deleted
after use (and it may be used TSR as well!)
Refer to the document VOICE.DOC for more details.
C. The TALKER.OVL overlay and TALKER.CMD script
The use of VOICE.EXE was previously limited to use with PC-VCO.
Beginning with COM-AND version 2.6, VOICE.EXE may be accessed
through a script named TALKER.CMD and a machine language script
subroutine overlay named TALKER.OVL.
o TALKER.CMD loads TALKER.OVL as an overlay and:
.. TALKER.OVL looks for VOICE.EXE loaded as a TSR
.. TALKER.OVL loads VOICE.EXE if VOICE is not TSR
... it must be in the current subdirectory,
... there must be sufficient memory
o TALKER.CMD loads an exception file (discussed below) if
found on the cu