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From: mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Alan David Mead)
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Subject: Re: tspeech.pas from wuarchive.wustl.edu
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.010421.16697@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 91 01:04:21 GMT
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Yeah.  A while ago another user had this problem.  

You can make it compile by using BINOBJ.EXE (a utility that comes 
with TP).  You need to specify a "public name".  This will be the 
procedure that is declared external.

(Ie, you probably get a mesassage 'Expecting ";"' or something 
right after the EXTERNAL keyword right after a procedure 
declaration:

    procedure SPEECH external 'TPSEECH.BIN';

You need:

{$L TSPEECH.OBJ} 
{$F+}

   procedure SPEECH; external;

{$F-}

In this case, SPEECH (case unimportant) is the public name to be 
used as the third argument when invoking BINOBJ.  The tspeech.OBJ 
file is created from the tspeech.BIN file by BINOBJ.EXE.)

(The net will no doubt correct me if any of the above is wrong.)

BUT, I was still unable to get the beast to work *right* on my
386SX.  The original user was unsuccessful as well (as far as I
know).

I thought that my machine's relatively high speed might be the
problem, but the couple of SLOW utilities I tried didn't help
much (and who wants to slow down their machine so it can speak?)

Good luck.  I'd send you the stuff, but after a long while of not 
working, I deleted all that stuff while house-keeping.

-alan : amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu


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Alan Mead : mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu