Yeah, ever since I realized DOSUSB wasn't going to help me and VSB would not run any tts software I've been thinking of getting a dedicated machine for DOS but I don't really know where to look. Does anyone know of something not too expensive that has at least one RS232 port and a SoundBlaster-compatible card? The quality is pretty OK. SBTalker has a low sampling rate but doesn't sound too bad, TextAssist sounds just like DECtalk if you've ever heard that one, and Monologue sounds terrible to me but it's usable although I never got it to load under DOS.
> On 18 Feb 2016, at 23:53, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > > Oh okay. > I have no idea, it might I believe someone suggested asking on the source > list for it. > I have always gotten my machines custom built, one can still find those with > cereal ports. as I use dos exclusively It has been worth it to me to keep > the door open. > I did not know all those sound card options existed might be fun to play with > them, assuming the sound quality is clear enough. > > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote: > >> I do, but none of the computers that I have have a serial port. I was hoping >> that this would be an alternative but I guess not. >> >>> On 18 Feb 2016, at 23:43, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: >>> >>> Understood, >>> May I ask what the problem is then? Do you not have an external >>> synthesizer? >>> I do not use freedos, but a later package of ms dos 7.1 I have no issues, >>> but I am not using a sound card. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote: >>> >>>> I have heard about talking dosbox, in fact I helped with the project and I >>>> made one of the speech synthesis helper applications, but I was hoping to >>>> be able to have dos running natively without emulation. I have no sight >>>> whatsoever so I need speech output, and the only ways of speech output >>>> available are through serial with an external speech synthesizer or via a >>>> SoundBlaster or compatible with SBTalker, Monologue, TextAssist etc. >>>> >>>>> On 18 Feb 2016, at 21:49, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Guillem, >>>>> granted I am unsure what your goals may be, but have you tried a >>>>> relatively new project talking dosbox? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://batsupport.com/unsupported/dosbox/00_README.html >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I can tell you nothing about it save that it is supposed to allow for >>>>> speech via dosbox using the sound card etc. >>>>> hope this presents a solution for you. >>>>> karen >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi. >>>>>> Yeah, only reason I asked is because right now my only way of running >>>>>> DOS is actually through dosbox, which would make testing it kind of >>>>>> impossible. Before I dualboot my PC I want to be sure I'll be able to >>>>>> use it. If I don't have speech synthesis I can't use the computer. I >>>>>> would run the screenreaders through HX but the problem is that all the >>>>>> DOS screenreaders that I know of are 16-bit, and I'm not sure if they'd >>>>>> even be able to access all the data they need to. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 17 Feb 2016, at 12:09, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Just for clarification, does this only work with programs loaded >>>>>>>> inside dosbox inside HX, or is there any way to get it to work under >>>>>>>> DOS directly, with HX loaded but without DOSbox? I'm still thinking >>>>>>>> of dualbooting one of my machines with DOS but I need some way of >>>>>>>> doing either USB serial port emulation or modern soundcard support >>>>>>>> for speech synthesis. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I do not know, please check the website or try to find out. 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