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Old 01-23-2005, 12:09 AM   #1
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Default Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
Opera 8 beta was recently released http://www.opera.com/download/

So I installed it and gave it a go , and it seems to work OK.

I was really surprised when I had Opera read back selected text from a webpage. It sounds identical to my A-500's translator device when using the 'say' command from CLI!

I had to be sure, so I fired up my Amiga, and gave 'Say' a listen, and sure enough, same voice. It would apear that the Amiga lives on....
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Old 01-23-2005, 08:31 AM   #5
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Default Re: Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
The company that provided the base technology for Say, translator.library, etc. is still around, according to Workbench Nostalgia. (see here) It would be fantastic if we could see an updated version for OS4.
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Default Re: Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
WindowsXP has a built in voice. Look in the control panel under Speech. Sounds like the old miggy... but then most software speech synthesizers do unless you use sampled sounds from different people.

I looked at building a new narrator.device when Commodore stopped including one but at that time the Amiga was too slow to run the code. I looked at porting what I had done to AROS a few years ago and with no sound or sound standard it wasn't worth messing with at the time. I supposed I should dig out the code again and give it a go.
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The company that provided the base technology for Say, translator.library, etc. is still around, according to Workbench Nostalgia. (see here) It would be fantastic if we could see an updated version for OS4.
Thanks for the link, very interesting. I also see that I was wrong in mentioning the translator device. I should have made reference to the narrator device instead.
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WindowsXP has a built in voice. Look in the control panel under Speech. Sounds like the old miggy... but then most software speech synthesizers do unless you use sampled sounds from different people.
Actually, I believe that is because the very company that provided the text-to-speech libraries on Amiga is who Microsoft subcontracted for the accessability features (narrator, etc) in Windows. I could have sworn I read that somewhere. Of course, I can't find the source, now... :-P
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