quoted 2 lines I have a bit of a computery question to ask. First off, do any of you
> I have a bit of a computery question to ask. First off, do any of you
> know if any modern day PC sound cards will work in an old 486?
Any ISA sound card will. And there is a chance that your 486 might have a PCI
slot or 2 as well. So my reccomendation is the Sound Blaster AWE 64. ISA and
good.
quoted 3 lines Secondly,
> Secondly,
> do any of you know of where to get a program (one that works on a 486)
> that can read text aloud, outputting a "voice" out of the soundcard?
I don't know of a free stand alone program, but this is one of the coolest
things I have found in a while.
http://www.bell-labs.com/projects/tts/voices-java.html
it is an online text-to-speech converter, which you can then save as a wav.
there ya go.
shaneb