Re: Speech Input/Output on Apple II

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Kevin Greene wrote:

<snip>

> There was also a small program called "Speak Up!" that when you ran it 
> it would say that ("Speak UP!" -- very poorly, I remember reloading it 
> from disk a dozen times before I realized it, I seem to remember it 
> would overwrite part of itself or do something to reduce it's memory 
> size so if you tried BLOADing it and calling it it would only say it the 
> first time!)  It included an applesoft interface routine so that any 
> string that start with a control character (can't remember, ctrl-D?) or 
> something like that would be spoken instead of being printed to the screen.

A very simple and reasonable way to do a "spash" sound is to put the
sound itself in the graphics area, then overwrite it with graphics
after playing the sound.

-michael

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