Hey,
What I’d be interested in is if it were possible to get this working on
platforms besides Windows. I have OS X, and VmWare Fusion, which can run
virtual machines created for VmWare Player. So I’m 90% there, I guess.
Any ideas?
THanks,
Zack.
> On Dec 24, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Jacob Kruger <ja...@blindza.co.za> wrote:
>
> Josh, to switch that instance of eSpeak over to US english, edit espeak.py
> with something like notepad, and on line 5, change the current line to:
> _espeak.setVoiceByLanguage("en-us")
>
> That makes it use US english - even switched it over to a couple of other
> languages/variants now when testing.
>
> Those languages/variants of voices match the files in the espeak-data\voices
> sub-folder - under en there's a few kinds of english, including en-us.
>
> Stay well
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> "Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..."
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh k" <joshknnd1...@gmail.com>
> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 7:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] tiny talk in dos
>
>
> it doesn't really matter. with windows7 and the right pyserial and
> com0com with signed drivers the windows3.1 vmware image and the virtual
> braille 'n speak server I have all the dos I could ever want with the
> microtalk and whatever other screen reader i want, talking through
> espeak on virtual serial port com1. now if i could make the vbns server
> mod its code to make espeak use its american english voice an maybe
> another variant like m3?
>
> On 12/21/2014 12:56 AM, shaun everiss wrote:
>> Well josh it does not help that at least with laptops and maybe other things
>> pc speakers are linked with soundcards now so are vertual.
>> Either that or they are crappy small things because they don't have to be.
>> Worse I am not sure if the new eufi systems will even run dos, they do have
>> speakers but they sound different notes from bios units, bios ones usually
>> are a with toshibas with an e chime, the eufi systems I have used have a c
>> chime so they are probably different.
>> Since eufi is not cmos
>> I can only assume thatt dos games will not run from it because its a
>> different structure.
>>
>> At 09:41 a.m. 20/12/2014, you wrote:
>>> but how do you get sound from games in dosemu and pc speaker beeps? haven't
>>> figured that out yet. On 12/19/2014 12:53 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi, >
>>> > As a matter of interest, I managed to have some success with a DecTalk
>>> USB connected to a USB-to-serial adaptor in DosBox. It was clunky, though,
>>> so I really would suggest Dosemu in Linux as a better solution at this
>>> point. > If something more useable is found, I’m all ears, though. There
>>> were some great DOS games which haven’t been duplicated. > Best, > Zac.
>>> >> On Dec 19, 2014, at 9:48 AM, tim <z200...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The
>>> only version of windoweyes that will work with win3.1 is version 1. I beta
>>> tested it for a year on that op. >> >> At 10:45 AM 12/19/2014, you wrote:
>>> >>> Josh, one of my VMWare images have here is some version of dos, with
>>> windows 3.1, but, have never been able to do much with it, since couldn't
>>> manage to get the apparent installation of window eyes to run inside
>>> windows 3.1 myself, and have never bothered to get sighted help to handle
>>> that, since it's just always been something I never bothered deleting,
>>> partly since it's not all that large in file size.
>>> >>> >>> However, wonder if something like this tiny talk screenreader
>>> might work/run within it - but, again, wouldn't be 100% sure how to copy it
>>> across to virtual file system, since while I can sort out VMWare file
>>> shares with virtual versions of windows, really don't know exactly how dos
>>> would even try to handle that...<smile> >>> >>> Jacob Kruger >>> Blind
>>> Biker >>> Skype: BlindZA >>> ...Roger Wilco wants to welcome you, to the
>>> space janitor's closet... >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh
>>> k" <joshknnd1...@gmail.com> >>> To: "Gamers Discussion list"
>>> <gamers@audyssey.org> >>> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 2:40 PM >>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] tiny talk in dos >>> >>> >>>> hi thomas, >>>> do
>>> you have speakup installed in ubuntu, or do you use archLinux? I like
>>> speakup. it is the closest thing I can come to using true DOS. >>>> >>>> On
>>> 12/18/2014 11:39 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: >>>>> Hi Josh, >>>>> >>>>>
>>> Honestly, I'm not surprised. The only way I have ever managed to run >>>>>
>>> any old Dos applications etc the last few years is by using Dosemu >>>>>
>>> with Speakup. It isn't a perfect solution, but it does work. I have >>>>>
>>> managed to play some games and run certain apps like Wordperfect 5.1
>>> >>>>> with Speakup. However, that requires a Linux distribution like
>>> Vinux, >>>>> Ubuntu, or some other distribution with Speakup, Espeakup, and
>>> Dosemu. >>>>> Otherwise I don't think you are going to find a better
>>> solution for >>>>> running old Dos games and apps. I've already tried
>>> running copies of >>>>> Jaws for Dos etc in Dosbox before all to no
>>> success. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 12/18/14, Josh k
>>> <joshknnd1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> hey tiny talk with sound blaster
>>> isn't working. and I can't get speech >>>>>> thing working either. how can
>>> I use old dos stuff like wordperfect 5.1
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