Re: What do you use your Apple for?

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Feb 15, 11:12 am, "Jayson Smith"
<ihatespamratguynospample...@insightbb.spamsucks.com> wrote:
> I mostly use my Apple for games. However, I'm blind, and use the Textalker
> software which makes my Echo speech synthesizer talk. So I assume any new OS
> that came out would probably be inaccessible, since porting Textalker over
> would be a major challenge, especially without the Textalker source code!
> Jayson

Jayson,

On that topic, I'm curious if you know of any similarity of phonemes
as used by Echo as compared to S.A.M. -- if there is a direct mapping
I wonder if it is possible to emulate echo speech "on the cheap" by
doing the following:

1) Trap emulated call to Echo speech
2) Back up emulator state (ram, cpu, etc)
3) Bank in S.A.M. software speech software routine
4) Translate echo speech data into SAM phoneme data
5) Execute S.A.M. speech routine
6) Restore emulator state (ram, cpu, etc)

With this, I could also add other interesting features (some day) to
trap writes to screen ram and translate that to speech.  But that
would be a rather hit or miss concept and might not work.  Still,
could be cool to have a speech-enabled version of Zork someday.