Hi Jim,
Unfortunately, the TextAssist programme that uses Prody Parrot is inferior to the original and uses a different type of speech. For some reason, Creative Labs stopped using the Dectalk speech. I do have Prody around here somewhere. My grandchildren played with it for a time.
Best.
Robert.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Ballard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The Prody Parit program which comes with some Creative Labs sound cards uses the text assist program and it is usable with windows XP. You can install just the text assist speech and pass on the parot.
Jim
At 04:46 AM 2/5/2005, you wrote:
Hi Paul,
The first computer I bought came with Windows 3.1 and the TextAssist programme. When I upgraded to Win98, TextAssist no longer worked. I contacted Creative Labs and they provided me with updated software on CD for 15 pounds. If anything it worked even better and included all the nursery rhymes. I still have that CD and would very much like to get at the singing voices but unfortunately, it won't work with Windows XP and I haven't found a way to extract the software. If you have any ideas, please let me know.
Best.
Robert. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Erkens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 4:42 PM Subject: singing dectalk and soundblaster
Hi,
Somewhere in 1996 I used to have windows 95 and a soundblaster 16 soundcard, running a piece of software called text-assist. Text-assist had a text reader, sort of a talking notepad, and you could make it sing using pure text together with a few special symbols to indicate frequency and note durations.
That text-assist soundblaster thing sounded almost exactly like the dectalk 4.3, which appears to be a completely different bit of software.
On the web, there are numerous songs to download, made by dectalk enthousiasts, that make the dectalk sing wonderful songs. Not only one-liners, but complete songs with lyrics. And even better: not only monophone songs, but multiple voices sounding at once, creating very nice close harmony compositions. Even more: some guys have created dectalk vocals along with background music. What can be achieved with either text-assist or dectalk is impressing.
Now I have two questions. First: if I happen to find the floppy containing text assist again, will that software then be able to run on windows xp with a totally different soundcard? I still have one from Creative, but this is the soundplaster extigy and not the sb16 anymore. Any experience with text-assist on a newer operating system than windows 95 for which it was originally made?
Second: the dectalk 4.3 software doesn't seem to be available anymore. I now know that it is produced by "digital Equipment Corporation", which is, y the way, why the letters D E C are in the word dectalk, but what they currently sell is a much more human-like sounding software synthesizer that cannot sing, which is not what I'm hoping to find because I want to create my own synthetic dectalk songs. Does anyone know how I can obtain a copy of the dectalk software somewhere?
Kind regards from Holland, Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:07 PM Subject: Nero & MP3 CD
Hi,
I notice that under the burn options for Music CD, there is an option hat
says MP3 CD. I've burned data CDs with MP3 files on them, and I've made
regular audio, CDDA format, CDs using MP3 files. So, , exactly what does
this MP3 option under the Music CD do?
~Ann
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