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Source: Samuel Audet (guardia@CAM.ORG)
Moderator: Chris Wenham (chris@os2ezine.com)
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I have the possibility to use a better Voice Synthetizer for BackTalk
than RSynth that sounds a lot better, and that also has the possibility
to support more than one language.  Unfortunately, it also costs money.
 I need to ask US$20 for one copy of such a Backtalk.  If you want to
have a better sounding, more comprehensible BackTalk, please let me
know.  If enough people respond, I will start asking for pre-orders
since I can't take all the risk on myself.  Thank you for your
comprehension.  Just as a side note, BackTalk could be used as a Screen
Reader/2 synthetizer if only I knew how Screen Reader/2 works (is there
a free SDK for it?).

You can try WAV files made by this synthetizer as well as demo programs
allowing you to try it out on your own text files at:
http://www.elan.fr/speech/ttsdemo.htm

The current version of BackTalk 2.01 can ge gotten at:
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/archives/btalk201.zip 
as well as on various OS/2 archives site.

Here is a description of BackTalk:

BackTalk 2.01   A FREE Speech System for OS/2

Available from my homepage: 
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/archives/btalk201.zip

Requires EMX libraries: 
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9c/emxrt.zip

A dictionary is highly recommended.  There is a free American English
at:
ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/dictionaries/cmudict/cmudict.0.4.Z
or as a ZIP file at: 
http://www.cris.com/~djd/CMUDict.zip


Features:

Robust and Responsive Multi-Threaded Server Interface

	- Volume control
	- Amplification
	- Sound mute/unmute
	- Queue purge
	- Queue status watcher
	- Quick and clean exit

Support for External Programs and REXX

	- Available external functions to any program and 
	  REXX script.

Included Clients:

E-Mail Notifier

Instead of just a wav file saying "You have received mail", how about
"You have received mail from , the subject is "?

	- Tested with PMMail, Post Road Mailer, MR/2 ICE and 
	  Internet Adventurer.

Speaking Clock

	- Speaks the time exactly as it shows up at a regular 
	  interval that _you_ want.

	- Supports International, Civil and Offset mode.

Speaking IRC

Now you can hear what you friends are saying on IRC while typing in
your word processor or even cooking.

	- Supports various option to select what type of 
	  message to speak (private, public, addressed to 
	  you, ctcp, notify list, etc.), and also 
	  convieniently tells you of which type the message 
	  processed was.

	- Supports voice settings per nickname.

	- Tested with GTIRC and Internet Adventurer.

Speaking Timer

	- Supports a normal and urgent mode that gets 
	  enabled at a specified amount of time left.  Both 
	  have their own messages and lap between these 
	  spoken message event.  Another message is 
	  available as an alarm.

-- 
Samuel Audet    
(aka Guardian)  http://www.cam.org/~guardia
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