mfontana@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mark A Fontana) (06/13/91)
I was recently playing around with First Byte's "First Letters and Words," a program for preschoolers that talks using either one of several supported speech accessories or a built-in software speech driver. The software speech driver is contained in a separate 80k file that loads as a TSR. The speech quality isn't great, but it's better than most of the public domain attempts that I've heard. It's actually understandable. I examined the data files with a binary file editor, and the phonetic code was pretty obvious: ex. A BIG DOG = "2AAb5IHgd2AWg." I played around with it and managed to 'customize' what the children's game says. But I'd like to use this TSR speech driver for my own applications. Does anyone know how I can communicate with this program? Mark