Re: Echo Commander Card & Echo Plus question

[lemonjimm@aol.comNONONO (Jim L.)]

I have an ECHO+ card that is in my 64K Apple II+ (and it works just fine).  It
not only does speech but can generate sounds and play music.

To get mine to speak I need to first boot the machine with their software and
then I can exit to the OS.  

Try this stuff at the prompt to see if it works with yours -

&TALK, "I AM A SPEECH SYNTHESIZER"

this is an example of the phonetics -

&PHN, "! AM @ SP&C SIN)US!Z'R"

If I can help, let me know -

Now, my question to the group is -
Where can I find disc images of a sound program that would let me just type in
notes and output music and also a program that I create and edit sound effects
with.  There is a sound editor on the ECHO+ disc but it is lacking a few
features.  The instruction book points to third party software yet fails to
give an example.  Any clues or vague memories would be welcome as well.

Thanks,
Jim

BobRyan said -

>If the card is in slot5 and requires no initialization, that would
>work.  You would get no output to the screen, so you would type and the
>text would not appear on the screen.
>
>The card may output "KATE" instead of CAT because of it's lack of
>knowledge of pronunciation rules.  Probably not with the word CAT, but
>with others it will definitely be hard to understand.  SKI=  SKY
>
>Some of the speech boards require an initialization charachter to be
>sent before the card turns on.
>
>Also, the board will only output to the Apple Speaker if there is a
>connection between the Echo board and the Apple Speaker.
>
>Bob