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From: tlm@pur-phy (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: SPEAK: device in 1.3
Keywords: devices, SPEAK:
Message-ID: <1742@pur-phy>
Date: 19 Dec 88 17:07:54 GMT
Reply-To: tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer)
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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Oh line eater, come here boy!

I've just added all the 1.3 thingies (libraries, devices, a few commands etc.)
to my usual boot up disk and have run into a problem with the SPEAK:
device. I've got an entry in devs/mountlist and I mount SPEAK: along with
a few other devices (like AUX:) in my startup scripts. SPEAK: does work,
if I "cat foofile > SPEAK:" it will merrily read out the file to me. What I
can't seem to do is toggle any of the option - change from male to female
voice, change speed, pitch, punctuation, etc. I've tried all the examples
(and all the options) listed in the 1.3 (AmigaDos upgrade manual) but I
always get the same output! I've tried this from Matt's shell, and a 1.3
CLI, but get the same thing. I use mostly ARP commands and run with a number
of things "Rez'ed" like dme, Xicon, ls etc. So what is it that I am missing
that is sooooooo obvious? Has anyone else played with it and not gotten it to
work? I followed the examples explicitly, i.e. "cat foofile > SPEAK:OPT/f/n" or
"cat foofile > SPEAK:OPT/n/p200" from Matt's shell or "type foofile
> SPEAK:OPT/f/n/d1/s100" from a CLI - and no dice! Can somebody "hep the boy!"

thanks.

tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu