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Title: Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
Post by: jjans on January 23, 2005, 07:09:55 AM
Opera 8 beta was recently released http://www.opera.com/download/ (http://www.opera.com/download/)

So I installed it and gave it a go , and it seems to work OK.

I was really surprised when I had Opera read back selected text from a webpage. It sounds identical to my A-500's translator device when using the 'say' command from CLI!

I had to be sure, so I fired up my Amiga, and gave 'Say' a listen, and sure enough, same voice. It would apear that the Amiga lives on....
Title: Re: Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
Post by: aasmund on January 23, 2005, 09:27:56 AM
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Title: Re: Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
Post by: aasmund on January 23, 2005, 09:28:43 AM
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Title: Re: Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
Post by: AdMartin on January 23, 2005, 01:38:23 PM
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Title: Re: Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
Post by: Matt_H on January 23, 2005, 03:31:22 PM
The company that provided the base technology for Say, translator.library, etc. is still around, according to Workbench Nostalgia. (see here (http://www.text2speech.com/)) It would be fantastic if we could see an updated version for OS4.
Title: Re: Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
Post by: jdiffend on January 23, 2005, 04:11:46 PM
WindowsXP has a built in voice.  Look in the control panel under Speech.  Sounds like the old miggy... but then most software speech synthesizers do unless you use sampled sounds from different people.

I looked at building a new narrator.device when Commodore stopped including one but at that time the Amiga was too slow to run the code.  I looked at porting what I had done to AROS a few years ago and with no sound or sound standard it wasn't worth messing with at the time.  I supposed I should dig out the code again and give it a go.
Title: Re: Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
Post by: jjans on January 23, 2005, 09:24:34 PM
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Matt_H wrote:
The company that provided the base technology for Say, translator.library, etc. is still around, according to Workbench Nostalgia. (see here (http://www.text2speech.com/)) It would be fantastic if we could see an updated version for OS4.


Thanks for the link, very interesting. I also see that I was wrong in mentioning the translator device. I should have made reference to the narrator device instead.
Title: Re: Opera 8 beta with a familiar voice
Post by: Ilwrath on January 23, 2005, 10:03:18 PM
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The company that provided the base technology for Say, translator.library, etc. is still around, according to Workbench Nostalgia.


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WindowsXP has a built in voice. Look in the control panel under Speech. Sounds like the old miggy... but then most software speech synthesizers do unless you use sampled sounds from different people.


Actually, I believe that is because the very company that provided the text-to-speech libraries on Amiga is who Microsoft subcontracted for the accessability features (narrator, etc) in Windows.  I could have sworn I read that somewhere.  Of course, I can't find the source, now...  :-P