hi all
are PB games still producing gangster attack or that ant game?
it's been what, 3, 4 years since the last game, tarzan junior?
are they like bavisoft, dead in the water
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Hi again Niels,
Thanks for your quick response.
What you say sounds great.
I would therefore refer you to a mailing list that discusses aspects of
gaming for the visial impaired. If you so to http://www.audyssey.org.
On this list, are people who create some truly excelent audio games with
no
Indeed. Granted my microphone is kind of crappy but I have GoldWave so can
do noise reduction/volume stuff.
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Hi,
Have you ever tried the way in which Rockbox builds voices: thorugh a
VB-script? I made some wavefiles with a SAPI 5 voice and that VB-script, and
it goes terribly fast and accurate. It does absolutely not take as long as
recording them manually. So, you could create a voicepack in just a
Wow. 3.2? I started with 3.5. The funny thing about that version of
Eloquence was it sounded like it had a sinus problem compared to the newer
versions. I've tried using the real speech voices that came with JAWS9 and
had some trouble understanding them. They do sound a bit more natural, but
Ok guys,
Unfortunately you'll need a bit of site to do this. Here's what I do.
Take the bank window to the left hand side of the screen. Physically
move the window until the left side of the window has disappeared. Now
be careful here because you can push the window partly off the screen.
With me
Hi Glenna,
May I ask, is this my Yahtzee game that you are talking about?
If so, when you say, when you got to Yahtzee, does that mean that you had
filled all other scoring spaces?
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I was playing with a friend, and when I gott to yatsi I had to put a zero. A
couple
Hi Bryan,
Only two of my games have recorded Eloquence speech. That would be Mach 1 and
the very old version 5 of golf that I left on the sight for those who can not
play sapi5 games.
BTW my favorite sapi5 voice is ATT Lauren. However I use ATT Crystal for
Email because she pronounces allot
Hi Cory,
I did not change the pitch of any of the recorded Eloquence speech. The
problem is, when you use recorded speech and I have it so that you can adjust
the rate of the speech all it can do is to play the speech files faster or
slower and that is what changes the pitch of them.
BFN
Yes it is your game. I did fill in all of the spaces, and so did the other
person. Glenna
Glenna Burgess
Windows Messenger screen name, earthmother122
AIM Screen Name, earthmother122
Yahoo Messenger Screen Name, earthmother122
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To:
Hi Leonard,
I have up loaded it to send space for you
File Name: DX81b_SDK.exe
Size: 166MB |
Download Link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/s0cfez
That file size is reported incorrectly though. It is actually
01/02/2003 12:45 PM 174,848,584 DX81b_SDK.exe
HTH
BFN
Jim
That was
Hmmm, imho there are far too many stat management text games on the net
already. Unless other factors could be added, like the war news, changing
circumstances missions sfx and music in smugglers 3, I really don't see the
need for another of these when there are already so many differently
Hi Nicol,
The speaker placement is an Easter egg which some game developers add to
surprise the game player and are sometimes not included in a walk through.
It should not make any difference in your playing the game as it is supposed
to freeze the game teleport you somewhere else and then bring
Hi Ken,
If you want games developed quickly then a synthesized voice recorded is
much faster to do.
When I get a new idea I can get a recording in a few minutes, but if I want
a human voice it may take a week to get it.
I originally developed the Sarah game using the Crystal voice from A T and
ATT Mike for his calm, projective voice;
Scansoft Tom for the same reason;
Scansoft Lee because he's really excited!
ATT Crystal is good, but she makes a better computer voice. She's the
ice-cold voice that I wouldn't want to mess with if she had a grudge.
Signed:
Dakotah Rickard
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Hey Jim,
Is there a version of the directx 8.2 sdk, or are there only updates
for it?
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Hi Leonard,
I have up loaded it to send space for you
File Name: DX81b_SDK.exe
Size:
Hi guys,
Well I now got it. Shame my old save game won't be any good because I
got quite a way with it. But I may try a different faction this time
anyway just to see what it's like. Anybody else tried it? What do you
all think.
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If you want to
I bought the add on at the same time I bought the full game, so have never
played without it.
I haven't run into any gladiatorial combat or ability to get married yet,
but one thing that didn't seem to be in the demo (which I assume is the add
on), is the ability to go to the bar and get
I've tried looking at the gladiator thing, it looks really hard to use.
Also you need a lot of cash to do it.
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There's a huge, huuuge difference between the kinds of games you're
thinking of and the kind of games sim city and GalCiv 2 are in. You're
thinking the type of games where its all online play focusing on PVP, with a
very limited amount of resources and buildings and the like. These types of
No I didn't think that it did, it's just a site thing. Still there's a
few extra ships, and now I've got the anti aging sorted I'll use that to
my advantage
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Ah, probably should have been clearer. smile. You're exactly
right, but I was asking if there is another intel version which was
closer to the specific one that the author is pointing to?...
Sorry for the lack of clarity.
Have an awesome day!...
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Jan 14, 2008,
Well what you have to do, is to click on the top left hand side of the
bank window. Now the easiest way to get to the top left is certainly if
you're using window eyes is to hit numberpad 7 that will take you to the
top. Now, if you have a bit of site, hold the left mouse button down and
drag the
Before there was an internet?... lol! Wasn't The Sims introduced
in the late nineties?... There was definitely an internet! lol!
And on top of that, BBS games went all the way back to the
eighties. So I agree that number crunchie games are a bit plentiful,
smile but not sure of
I agree, The text ones are just borring web browser stuff you just click
through, sims is really million times deeper. Even with games like Battrick
and so on, I find it difficult to carry on being thrilled, I'm sure most, if
not all of us would rather play the football, cricket and strategy
I don't think we'll ever see no more text games, they'll always be about
there will be a demand for them I think. There's thousands of them out
there.
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I never ever asked anything on this list which is in the manual.
For me games like sryth and smugglers3 and stfc3 is complicated, but I
never complain if people talk about it regularly.
Sarah is a great game. The tone of your message lets it sound as if sarah is
a common game.
None of the
I believe there are twenty-four rungs to the Melee Ladders. As for the Gey
Circle, fifty is the highest you can train a power there. The unknown
QUikstone powers either haven't been implemented yet or haven't been seen.
And as for the most powerful weapon in the game, that would probably be the
You and I are in agreement on that Ken. In fact as I write this I'm using
Neospeech Paul. I only wish there were more Englis Neospeech voices.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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Hi Bryan,
Yeah, I have both of the Neospeech voices as well, and they sound great.
My only complaint with the Neospeech voices is that they are 16K which
means they have to be converted to 22500K before they can be used.
However, the Scansoft voices are 22500K so they can be created, edited,
That's sort of what I had in mind. And since I've also got NeoSpeech Kate
and Paul there's two more voices we could use.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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Sent: Monday, January
Eloquence with a sinus problem. Tere's an interesting thought. I know that
if you tinker with it you can make Dectalk sound like it's got a cold but I
think you have to actually have the software itself, and one that isn't
linked to a screen reader. I havve noticed that the ScanSoft voices are
If Pacman Talks is ever updated that's one thing I'd like to see changed.
I'd be happy to voice one of the ghosts. Synthe voices just don't sit right
with me for voicing actuall characters.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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Well, it's PB Soundscape now and not PB Games, but as far as I know they're
still around. I don't know about Gangster Attack though.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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It's funny, but I've noticed just the opposite with Crysta. Haven't heard
many of the other ATT voices except Audry and Charles.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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To: Bryan Gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 15,
Hi,
One time while doing some speech testing I used Crystal as an alert
notice with some loud speaker effects and she did sound pretty good for
a Sci-fi setting.
Dakotah Rickard wrote:
ATT Mike for his calm, projective voice;
Scansoft Tom for the same reason;
Scansoft Lee because he's really
Hi Corry,
All I can say is the term best is a subjective word. My idea of best is
probably different from you, and your term for best might be different
from someone else.
As I have seen on the list so far there are some completely different
views on Eloquence. Some people hate it, and others
Hi tyler,
What kind of voice clips do you have?
Tyler Wood wrote:
Hi Tom,
Instead of you taking the time to record the voice clips, I already have
some recorded which you might find interesting. If you'd like, email me off
list and I'd be glad to send those along.
Tyler
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I find them very interesting!
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:28:05 +0200, nicol wrote:
I never ever asked anything on this list which is in the manual.
For me games like sryth and smugglers3 and stfc3 is complicated, but I
never complain if people talk about it regularly.
Sarah is a great game. The
Hi Tyler,
No, our product keys are similar to the Draconis Entertainment key
system. We will allow you to use our games on any computer you own
provided it is your computer. We initially were going to use hardware
ids, but decided in the long run that it wasn't fare to the paid
customers to
Hi Tyler,
Before Jaws 3.2 there was no software Synth with Jaws. You had to use a
hardware synth like a Dectalk, Keynote, Artic, etc... I should know I
have used every version of Jaws from Jaws For Dos 2.x to Jaws 9 for
Windows.
One thing I might want to add around Jaws 3.0 software speech
Hi.
Thom, be aware though, that just because it's a hardware id doesn't mean it
can not be hacked.
Try Troopanum 2, for example. Click register, and woosh! It's done, not
questions
asked.
I once tried gma tnak commander, troop 2, sod, among other cracks and they all
worked.
Needless to say
Hi.
What about DecTalk? I've gotten rather fond of that synth, and I like it when
you set the
pitch to a very low setting. Wowowowow that sounds good...
Eloquence is good though.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:17:18 -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Corry,
All I can say is the term best is a subjective
Hi Stefen,
All I can say is I go way back before Jaws for Dos was even invented. My
first speech synth was an echo for an Apple 2-E, and the text games of
the mid 80's era were fun.
Anyway, I can remember the days when I had to use Jaws without such a
thing as a software synth. In high school I
Hi Davy,
I do not have rockbox so haven't tried that. I usually just use Text
Aloud for this stuff.
Davy Kager wrote:
Hi,
Have you ever tried the way in which Rockbox builds voices: thorugh a
VB-script? I made some wavefiles with a SAPI 5 voice and that VB-script, and
it goes terribly
Hi Corry and all,
Actually, in late 2006 and early 2007 I was investigating the use of
human speech in games and it never panned out. There are allot of issues
involved in trying to use human speech that allot of gamers on this list
probably don't realise.
First, the process was extremely time
Hi Phil,
Yeah, I know all too well what a pain it is trying to use human speech
in a game. Cara was going to voice over Montezuma's Return for me, her
voice was great for the job, but it was difficult getting the recordings
just right and I noticed the same things you did. I would get a batch
Hi,
The benefit of that VB-script is that you can create multiple phrases at
once with it, thus saving a lot of time. This may also be possible with
TextAloud, however. After all I have never used that piece of software.
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Ah yes, I also remember those days. I'll be twenty-eight this June and I
remember well the days of running a BNS through a computer for use with JFD.
I also remember the Echo. It's funny, but while that was probably some of
the worst speech ever it was still some of the coolest. I remember
I have no site. The way I do it is, using the jaws cursor obviously, I route
jaws to PC and page up to the top of the window. Then I go down two lines,
till I get to the thing that says bank or whatever. I go 4 or 5 letters in,
then very carefully move the mouse to the left, double clicking as
true, but it's a racing game.
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Hi Corry,
All I can say is the term best is a subjective
I can't seem to get the l in the latest version of Pinball to spell Merlin.
Anyone else having this problem? I've tried and tried but I just can't get the
l g heheh.
Jake.
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Hi, Python 2.5 will not work with SoundRTS. Any 2.4 version of Python
will probably work.
Jean-Luc
2008/1/15, Cara Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ah, probably should have been clearer. smile. You're exactly
right, but I was asking if there is another intel version which was
closer to the
jean'Luc, thanks very much for your note. am installing a 2.4
version now and will see how it goes. I haven't looked at these
python files in the zip archive for Mac yet, but if they are the
actual source code, I could try to compile a .app file for Mac which
wouldn't require the
Yeah, I like DecTalk too, but there's no SAPI version, so it wouldn't be
able to be used with a lot of games.
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hi,
Yeah, i haven't heard this so-called warble either. However, I have
noticed over the years that Jaws has had an on and off problem with Sapi
voices. They don't always run correctly with Jaws, but would work fine
with Window Eyes. one case in point I had a problem with Neospeec Kate
with
Hi i'm new to this list, just wanted to say that I would use neospeech
kate or paul with games or scansoft lee.
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Hi,
Hmmm... Well, Dectalk access is not based on a Sapi 5 API so it won't
work with Text Aloud. However, the Dectalk SDK for Linux comes with a
simple speech tool called say which can be used to convert text files
to wav files, but I have not tried it myself. I have the Dectalk 5 SDK
for
Hi, Shaun,
I play Miriani as well. I'm Bill Sanders if you want to look me
up? Do you have the sound pack for Miriani? If not, I'll skype it
to you, although it might be easier to go to
www.chris-snyder.mom/miriani.
David
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Hi James,
USA Games will be using wav recorded samples of the speech output so
weather or not the voice has Sapi 5 support or not shouldn't matter. The
reason I startd the thread with the Sapi heading is it does make it
easier on me if I can just put the words in Text Aloud and save them as
Hi Bryan and all,
Do you remember the text based football game that was available for the
Apple 2-E? You didn't get a full season schedule etc, but you got to
make up your own names for the teams. You could give them triditional
names like Browns, Steelers, Cow Boys, etc or you could make up
Hey Sean,
It's Rothque Torraske from Miriani. The language that MonkeyTerm uses for
triggers/substitutions and what not is VBScript. Most of the framework for
playing sound already exists in afile called sound.mos. In a trigger you'd
simply put play file.extention along with the tags that tell
Speaking of old Apple games, I have a friend who would like to find one just
for remembrance, but she wants a version that can be played as a text game
on a Windows machine. Anyone know of such a version of Kidnapped? You
had to escape from a building that had 9 floors, and there were word
well in my opinion the keynote gold was real good, its robotic but it was still
clear it didn't sing like dectalk does but oh well.
At 10:21 a.m. 16/01/2008, you wrote:
Ah yes, I also remember those days. I'll be twenty-eight this June and I
remember well the days of running a BNS through a
yeah pitty I can't make eloquence sing, pitty my dectalk has a busted
component, its easy to fix I know how but I'm to lazy to bother.
At 09:31 a.m. 16/01/2008, you wrote:
Hi.
What about DecTalk? I've gotten rather fond of that synth, and I like it when
you set the
pitch to a very low setting.
oh man you guys are going and going.
I see I will have to compete with you guys.
Lets see I'm afraid you beat me on most things.
the first talking unit I had was running dos 5.0 ms with wordperfect 5.1
keysoft 1.3 and mastertouch 1.32
I used keynote gold.
Before the unit kicked the bucket I had
well I have a couple cheep 7 buck mics.
Really crappy but one of them does not put out much noise and for what its
worth its ok.
At 11:41 p.m. 15/01/2008, you wrote:
Indeed. Granted my microphone is kind of crappy but I have GoldWave so can
do noise reduction/volume stuff.
my first windows reader was hal 2.0 then it was 4.5 then 5.0, 5.22
and thats where I am now.
jaws was jaws 4.5 then 5.0 then 6.2.
and thats that.
At 11:33 p.m. 15/01/2008, you wrote:
Wow. 3.2? I started with 3.5. The funny thing about that version of
Eloquence was it sounded like it had a sinus
yeah the advantage of using actual voice waves is that you add effects like
echos to them.
THe disadvantage is they take longer to produce.
At 09:04 a.m. 16/01/2008, you wrote:
Hi,
One time while doing some speech testing I used Crystal as an alert
notice with some loud speaker effects and she
probably due to the system spec, I know that after a sertain version of hal it
would stutter loads since it needed more cpu and ram.
At 06:10 p.m. 16/01/2008, you wrote:
hi,
Yeah, i haven't heard this so-called warble either. However, I have
noticed over the years that Jaws has had an on and off
Hi all,
Below I have selected interesting pieces from an article from PC Plus
Magazine from the UK, what do you guys think, has anyone ever listened to
these?
Out of character
Orestis Bastounis explores ways to move gaming out of the game itself
When a game achieves any kind of popularity, and
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