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From: ttl@aura.cs.wisc.edu (Tony Laundrie)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Digitized Voices
Message-ID: <1991May31.173126.22077@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 17:31:26 GMT
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(This isn't the appropriate newsgroup, but...)

There are several public domain programs for the IBM-PC available via
anonymous ftp from simtel at 26.2.0.74 in msdos/voice/ 
or wuarchive.wustl.edu at 128.252.135.4 in mirrors/msdos/voice.  Here's the
index:
 Filename   Type Length   Date   Description
 ==============================================
 AUTOTALK.ARC  B   23618  881216  Digitized speech for the PC
 CVOICE.ARC    B   21335  891113  Tells time via voice response on PC speaker
 DIGISTUF.ARC  B   23662  890409  HP schematics for DIGITIZE.ARC & a bug fix
 DIGITIZE.ARC  B   65482  890403  Record/play human voice on PC
 HEARTYPE.ARC  B   10112  880422  Hear what you are typing, crude voice synth.
 HELPME2.ARC   B    8031  871130  Voice cries out 'Help Me!' from PC speaker
 MAXHEAD2.ARC  B   29184  870425  MAX HEADROOM for CGA. He talks, stutters, etc.
 REPLA101.ZIP  B  137100  900311  Plays 8bit digital sampled audio files on spkr
 SAY.ARC       B   20224  860330  Computer Speech - using phonemes
 TALK.ARC      B    8576  861109  BASIC program to demo talking on a PC speaker
 TRAN.ARC      B   39766  890715  Repeats typed text in digital voice
 VGREET.ARC    B   45281  900117  Voice says good morning/afternoon/evening

I have tried talk.arc and it works nice.  Just type in English text and it
gets most things right.  Follow up articles to comp.sys.ibm.pc.