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Written by Jage on 2024-12-27 at 01:56

Found my licensed TinyTalk 1.67 from 1994. I'm not sure if @datajake1999 or @tspivey had already broken the nag screen

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Written by Tyler Spivey on 2024-12-27 at 03:09

@Jage @datajake1999 There's a copy floating around on vetusware, but it doesn't have a serial number so might not be done properly. It only changes one byte in each file. I'm not sure what that breaks.

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Written by Jage on 2024-12-27 at 03:49

@tspivey @datajake1999 That probably works, the demo just had a 25 second lag screen on bootup as you probably knew.

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Written by David Goldfield on 2024-12-27 at 05:17

@Jage @tspivey @datajake1999 Having a shareware screen reader was pretty revolutionary and forward thinking on the part of Eric Ballman. TinyTalk was also the only DOS screen reader that I ever used that supported a software speech synthesizer.

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Written by Jage on 2024-12-27 at 06:35

@DavidGoldfield @tspivey @datajake1999 Ah yes I do remember trying the software synth. It was... well, not great, but it was there if you had nothing else.

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Written by David Goldfield on 2024-12-27 at 07:35

@Jage @tspivey @datajake1999 As I recall, that software synth would often skip letters, making screen reading unreliable. Wasn't it called either Smoothtalker or Texttalker, something like that? I think it sounded a bit like DoubleTalk.

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Descendants

Written by Jake Gross on 2024-12-27 at 18:20

@DavidGoldfield @Jage @tspivey The synth you are referring to is SmoothTalker by First Byte. It was used in the early Doubletalk units.

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