Hey Thomas,
Yes, sorry. I've dragged this way off topic. Thanks for the offer of an
off list chat. If you don't mind I'd love to ask you about a bunch of
other things, too.
It won't be until late tonight (Australia time) that I get a chance to
write. Chat then.
Thanks again.
Cheers,
Neophyte.
Hi Hayden,
I'll have to check Gournet out. It should be simple to code into any game,
and it sounds like it would be vey helpful.
As for the Braille Note talk, perhaps I'm confusing it with the braille
output device she had. I remember her talking about a number of braille
devices. I'll have to
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Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 9:25 PM
To: gamers@audyssey.org
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz TTS
Hi,
Another all-in-one email.
To Zachary.
Thanks. I'll add
Hi Neophite,
I have NVDA 2010, and use it on Windows. However, as we are getting
way off topic here if you want to talk about NVDA you can write me off
list at
thomasward1...@gmail.com
and I'll answer any questions you might have regarding that screen reader.
Cheers!
On 11/5/10, neoph...@intheco
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz TTS
Hey Phil,
I can understand why you would suggest buying a voice! The links you gave
me had quite the variety of them. I was pretty stoked to find that Real
Speak has an Australian one called Ka
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To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz TTS
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Hi Neophyte,
If you are trying to play I F games using SAPI,
Hi Neophyte,
My games do need the VB6 run time libraries and DirectX 8.1 or better. My
Winkit.zip file will install the VB6 libraries which no longer ship with
Windows but other than that, no, I do not seem to have problems with system
conflicts and platform bugs.
People have been playing my
Hi Neophyte.
i wasn't meaning that this was a specifically vi issue at all, just that it
is principely the reason I've stopped playing a lot of if these days, sinse
for every game I tried that I really liked, there seemed to be five or six
others where I ran into those sorts of problems.
This
Hi Neophyte,
If you are trying to play I F games using SAPI, you should try to get a
decent sounding voice.
The better ones need to be purchased and cost from $35 to $45 US per voice.
You can check out the demos at,
http://www.nextup.com
They carry the A T and T voices. I prefer the Crystal and
Hi,
Another all-in-one email.
To Zachary.
Thanks. I'll add that little bit of information to my expanding text
document. Hopefully, soon, I'll work through everyone's advice and distill
it down into some good set ups that work well on particular platforms.
To Muhammed.
I'll do some research on
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 5:21 AM
To: gamers@audyssey.org
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz TTS
Hey Dark and Hayden,
Thanks for the replies.
I've tried to do a bit of research on Winfrotz TTS and found that David
Kinder wrote the program. From what I understand, he's been helping ou
Hey all,
Yikes! Waking up on the other side of the planet means opening up an
in-box with 18 or so updates.
I've noted replies from Jim, Tom, Michael, Dark, Shaun, Muhammed and
Zachary. I'll do my best to respond in a few hours time.
Thanks for your help and comments.
Cheers,
Neophyte.
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From: "shaun everiss"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz TTS
well once I get a linux box I may
well once I get a linux box I may start old gaming again.
I have loads and loads of games from old floppies.
when my floppies started going bad and before they got to bad I
backed these on cd and then to my hard drives later on.
I have about 130mb of old stuff.
sadly most of it is old programs
Hi Michael,
That's actually one of the reasons I have taken to playing interactive
fiction type games on linux using Speakup. Since many VI users, such
as those who run Vinux, still very much use the console and console
applications with speakup you can load up your favorite IF title in
frotz and i
Hi Michael.
The example of doss games is a good one actually, sinse while I never
actually ran any games under dos, I have become a fan of games like Eamon,
fallthru and braminer played in console windows (which stil run under xp).
In those cases, turns aren't actually read aloud at all and i
Hi neophyte.
Well, when I said partially complete and based on earlier versions, I simply
mean that winfrotz tts is based on winfrotz version 1.4, where as I believe
the current version is 1.53 (it might even be further), so obviously the
older tts is less compatible with certain games which u
Hi Tom.
i like the idea of a texon screen reader.
As regards winfrotz, I actually use the tts for the same reason as you, it
aides in game flow to have the text automatically spoken as it appears on
screen. I do however keep Hal running at the same time for review purposes.
As regards sapi f
96-2004
Check out my blog at:
www.michaelfeir.blogspot.com
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Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz TTS
Hey Dark and Hayden,
Thanks for the replies.
I've tried to do a bit of research on Winfrotz TTS and fou
Hi,
Neophite wrote:
Thanks for the tip about there being a version of Frotz with a screen
reader built in.
My reply:
Actually, that's not technically correct. Microsoft Windows comes with
a technology called the Microsoft Speech API or Sapi for short. Sapi
is an API that is used to create and con
I still can't get winfrotz TTS to work on my system after one of my
reinstalls, so I stick to winfrotz 1.16, or thereabouts, with TTS support
built in, but will also just say we maybe get more used to a bit more spoken
noise on a computer as such...
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...
Hey Dark and Hayden,
Thanks for the replies.
I've tried to do a bit of research on Winfrotz TTS and found that David
Kinder wrote the program. From what I understand, he's been helping out
with Inform 7 of late, but I'm not certain.
I'm intrigued by your comment, Dark. You said that Winfrotz TT
Hi Neophyte,
I do not recall if Dark answered one of your last question, but I'll answer
that here. Sense the > symbol is a result of the Inform Compiler, I do not
believe you can change it to say something like you are asking. If you
could, that would be something interesting to consider.
Best Re
Hi Niophyte.
The first thing to note is that winfrotz tts is only a partially completed
version of the software, it's also only based on an earlier version of
win frotz 4.5 I believe, so some features which were planned never seemed to
make it into the final release annoyingly.
as to yo
Here's the error message am getting twice each time I try run it:
---start of virtualised dialogue---
FrotzTTS.exe - Application Error
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc005). Click on OK to
terminate the application.
OK
---end of virtualised dialogue---
Doesn't mean much, an
Hi.
For the record, dos is spelled d o s.
Couldn't resist, lol.
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From: "dark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz tts versions
hmm
er the sapi voice is saying.
As i said, it's not really the best method, but it does work!
Bware the Grue!
Dark.
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From: "Trenton Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:11 PM
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That's definitely agreeable!
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Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:03 PM
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
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It's a shame, though
o: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz tts versions
Ah, get the picture!
Yes, wish the TTS version of Winfrotz was updated more, however it isn't
bad to say the least.
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dependent, it's just
a case of having an interpreter to run it with.
Beware the Gru!
Dark.
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To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 2:40 PM
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er to run it with.
Beware the Gru!
Dark.
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From: "Trenton Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz tts versions
Here's a link to the "dos&
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From: "Michael Feir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Winfrotz tts versions
That's still the latest version as far as I know. Unfortunately, standard
Winfrotz doesn
Here's a link to the "dos" versions of Winfrotz, with "dosfrotz" at the top,
v2.4
http://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/dos.html
To confirm, winfrotz tts is still at v1.5.1
Looked on the web site at 7:30 AM this morning.
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From: "dark" <[EMAIL PR
That's still the latest version as far as I know. Unfortunately, standard
Winfrotz doesn't work all that well with screen readers anymore in my
experience. I haven't had any success in pursuading anyone in the IF
development community to create a solution more favorable to screen-readers.
Micha
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