"The Speaker" - an impressive text-to-speech program for the Amstrad CPC ! (http://www.norecess.net/3/post/2011/10/the-speaker-an-impressive-text-to-speech-program-for-the-amstrad-cpc.html)
1 November 2011, 4:31 am When I was a kid, I typed lots of programs from Amstrad CPC-dedicated magazines. That was actually my introduction to the world of computing. Most of them were poorly designed, some of them were quite inspiring (especially the ones from Tom & Jerry (http://tj.gpa.free.fr/)).
But one of them was really ahead from its time :
THE SPEAKER. It was a text-to-speech program, running without dedicated hardware, based on phonemes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme). After many searches over the net, I did not found any download link about it, excepted a reference to it through the great CPC POWER (http://www.cpc-power.com/) archive, that currently hosts the original listing from
CPC Infos french magazine... and then I just told to myself : what a miss for the Amstrad CPC community to not be aware about this program !
So I decided to re-type it, and I was not disappointed at all by the great memory I had. This is probably one of the most impressive program ever published in an Amstrad CPC magazine. Try it, you will be amazed ! (download link is attached to this news).
| THE_SPEAKER.ZIP |
| File Size: | 458 kb |
| File Type: | zip |
Download File (http://www.norecess.net/uploads/6/0/2/5/6025013/say.zip)
Source: NoRecess {the Amstrad CPC website} - News (http://www.norecess.net/index.html)
AKA Speech (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4372) by Superior Software. Uh-Oh! :)
Quote from: Grim on 03:56, 01 November 11
AKA Speech (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4372) by Superior Software. Uh-Oh! :)
Indeed. I have examined the machine code used by both programs, and
The Speaker uses exactly the same RSX system as
Speech! - although most of the RSX names have been removed. Very disingenuous of the "author", Monsieur Grossetête... >:(
Hahaha! Years later a theft has been exposed... :D
Still nice prog...
So.... Does the stolen version has any kind of improvements?
Quote from: TFM/FS on 16:39, 03 November 11
So.... Does the stolen version has any kind of improvements?
Not really. The only "improvement" that I can see is that you can type sentences directly, instead of having to use the
|SAY RSX every time.
This could have been an improvement, but you can't use it in your programs...?