[WarpCast] New Freeware: BackTalk 2.0 - 12/20/97




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Source: Samuel Audet
Reply-to: guardia@cam.org
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BackTalk 2.0   A FREE Speech System for OS/2

Available from my homepage:
	http://www.cam.org/~guardia/archives/btalk20.zip
Requires EMX libraries:
	ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9c/emxrt.zip
A dictionary is highly recommended.  There is a free American English
at:
	ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/dictionaries/cmudict
/cmudict.0.4.Z
or as a ZIP file at
	http://www.cris.com/~djd/CMUDict.zip


Features:

   Robust and Responsive Multi-Threaded Server Interface

     - Volume control
     - Amplification
     - Sound mute/unmute
     - Queue purge
     - Queue status watcher
     - Quick and clean exit

   Support for External Programs and REXX

     - Available external functions to any program and REXX script.

Included Clients:

   E-Mail Notifier

     Instead of just a wav file saying "You have received mail", how
about "You have received mail from , the subject is "?

     - Tested with PMMail, Post Road Mailer, MR/2 ICE and Internet
Adventurer.

   Speaking Clock

     - Speaks the time exactly as it shows up at a regular interval
that _you_ want.

     - Supports International, Civil and Offset mode.

   Speaking IRC

     Now you can hear what you friends are saying on IRC while typing
in your word processor or even cooking.

     - Supports various option to select what type of message to speak
(private, public, addressed to you, ctcp, notify list, etc.), and also
convieniently tells you of which type the message processed was.

     - Supports voice settings per nickname.

     - Tested with GTIRC and Internet Adventurer.

   Speaking Timer

     - Supports a normal and urgent mode that gets enabled at a
specified amount of time left.  Both have their own messages and lap
between these spoken message event.  Another message is available as an
alarm.

-- 
Samuel Audet    
 (aka Guardian)  http://www.cam.org/~guardia
-> At Warp speed, Windows should not be open. ->




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