Actually, I would tend to disagree with your suggestion, being the
unfortunate owner of a Sound Blaster AWE64Gold. My opinion would be to use
a Sound Blaster 16 or a used 32, but skip the 64 altogether. The
non-standard memory for soundfonts seems to have been a way for Creative
Labs to further profit, half of the polyphony is CPU emulated, rather than
being hardware, the noisefloor is terrible, etc. If you want a great
soundcard for $2, get a 16 (I really paid that much for the last one I got).
If you want a professional soundcard, save up and get a Terratec EWS64 - I
wish I had.
This is pretty off-topic, except that a soundcard is one of our (PE's) main
tools, and the new AWE64Gold we got didn't give us any more than a used 32
would have for much much less cost...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Travis Beers <djspaceg@apk.net>
To: idm@hyperreal.org <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date: Friday, September 04, 1998 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: (idm) Robotic voices
quoted 4 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
quoted 1 line slot or 2 as well. So my reccomendation is the Sound Blaster AWE 64. ISA
>slot or 2 as well. So my reccomendation is the Sound Blaster AWE 64. ISA
and
quoted 16 lines good.
>good.
>
>> 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