.o¤° EzSay v1.0 °¤o.

       Amiga Speech Synthesizer - Replacement tool for "Say" on OS2/3

         ©1993-1994 Coded in assembly by Wai Hung Liu (Khul/Infect)



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                                    About
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	EzSay was programmed because I thought the "official" Commodore
Say utility just wasn't good enough.  With the appearance of KickStart 2.0+
Commodore are still using the archaic utility they supplied with machines
that came with WorkBench 1.2!

	The actual speech output from the Amiga is not great but it is a lot
better than what other machines can offer, 16 bit or not.  Obviously with
the appearance of the DSP in future Amigas a program like this will be made
redundant...

	What I wanted when programming EzSay was to make a utility that
let me experiment and have fun with speech.  To take advantage of just some
of the new features of the new operating systems, and to use proper gadgets,
not just flimsy console windows.

	So now you have the fruits of my hard work, EzSay!



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                                Requirements
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EzSay can be loaded from the CLI or WorkBench.  EzSay is an auto-detaching
program so you won't have to "run" EzSay - you will still retain use of
your CLI or SHELL.

Several files are needed to run (these are included in the package):

		narrator.device		in your DEVS: drawer	VOS2.0+
		translator.library	in your LIBS: drawer	V37

No other files are needed.  These are standard files that should have been
included on your WorkBench disks.  Use at LEAST the versions listed above,
the latest narrator.device is nearly 50k larger than the previous OS1.3
version!



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                                    Usage
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Just type some text into the string gadget, and click on the Action button
to hear your Amiga speak!

A few of the gadgets are underscored and this means you can select them
through keyboard shortcuts.  Simple hold down SHIFT and the UNDERSCORED
LETTER.

Following is a list of complete keyboard shortcuts:

	SHIFT + A	=	Action (Speak!)
	SHIFT + RETURN	=	Action
	SHIFT + ESC	=	Quit
	SHIFT + M	=	Toggle mode
	SHIFT + S	=	Toggle sex
	SHIFT + F	=	Toggle filter
	SHIFT + T	=	Activate string gadget
	SHIFT + I	=	Information about EzSay



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                                 Final notes
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	Well I hope you like this little tool (only 5.5k! - less crunched!)
The narrator.device provides a simple facility to draw synced "mouths" to
expand in time with the speech.  So why not include it?  At the moment I
don't see a point - unless you enjoy seeing a square box resizing itself...
The actual data returned by the narrator.device is width and height...
Anyway thanks to Poison/Nova=Curacao/Drinks for telling me about the
oversight of the 68000 bug... oops!  <Merci bien!>  Greets are included in
the actual program info.  This program is placed into the public domain
so spread it like hell (ok? 8-).

                       Bye... Amiga rules - Intel out!

                      [khu!/infect and ascii unlimited]
                            Wai Hung (Simon) Liu,
                           90 Terenure Road East,
                                  Dublin 6,
                                  Ireland.