TextAssist is not too hard to find. You can get a pre-built dosbox with Win 3.1 and TextAssist somewhere in grossgang.com. He has a lot of old DOS access software. I'm in Spain, so that would probably be kind of a problem. :) I'm guessing you're using an external DECtalk synthesizer (card/stand-alone)? Have you had it for a long time or did you get it from any place in particular? I've been collecting these things for a while now and I'd love to get hold of a few more. I don't know if this might be getting a bit off-topic. Feel free to E-Mail me offlist if that's the case. I don't usually post on here so I don't know what's really acceptable. :D
> On 19 Feb 2016, at 02:34, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > > I use dectalk every day smiles. > where are you located? Somewhere I have contact information for a person > stateside who can build the machine for you, port included. > Is it still possible to find textaccess anywhere? > might be a fun laptop option. > Kare > > > On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote: > >> 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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