From Shane Cantwell Sent Fri, Sep 4th 1998, 15:34
From Shane Cantwell Sent Fri, Sep 4th 1998, 15:34
Actually, I would tend to disagree with your suggestion, being the unfortunate owner of a Sound Blaster AWE64Gold. My opinion would be to use a Sound Blaster 16 or a used 32, but skip the 64 altogether. The non-standard memory for soundfonts seems to have been a way for Creative Labs to further profit, half of the polyphony is CPU emulated, rather than being hardware, the noisefloor is terrible, etc. If you want a great soundcard for $2, get a 16 (I really paid that much for the last one I got). If you want a professional soundcard, save up and get a Terratec EWS64 - I wish I had. This is pretty off-topic, except that a soundcard is one of our (PE's) main tools, and the new AWE64Gold we got didn't give us any more than a used 32 would have for much much less cost... ***** Check out the New! Improved! Official Phrenetic Energy homepage at http://www.trailerpark.com/stagedive/phrnetic/index.html - now with MP3 -----Original Message----- From: Travis Beers <xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx> To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> Date: Friday, September 04, 1998 8:26 AM Subject: Re: (idm) Robotic voices >> I have a bit of a computery question to ask. First off, do any of you >> know if any modern day PC sound cards will work in an old 486? > >Any ISA sound card will. And there is a chance that your 486 might have a PCI >slot or 2 as well. So my reccomendation is the Sound Blaster AWE 64. ISA and >good. > >> Secondly, >> do any of you know of where to get a program (one that works on a 486) >> that can read text aloud, outputting a "voice" out of the soundcard? > >I don't know of a free stand alone program, but this is one of the coolest >things I have found in a while. > > http://www.bell-labs.com/projects/tts/voices-java.html > >it is an online text-to-speech converter, which you can then save as a wav. > >there ya go. > >shaneb