Talking Amiga!

[spudmiga]

Hi guys.

I wonder if any of you could possibly help.
After copying all the neccessary files from the Workbench 1.3 disk to my 3.1 flash drive installation, I now have Say working on my A1200. Good times! 

A long time ago on a previous install I had a few lines in my startup-sequence which made my Amiga talk to me when Workbench had finished loading, using the Say program in the background which I thought was really cool.
Unfortunately I cannot remember how to do this and can't seem to find any threads here on how to do it.

Does anybody know? I would be ever so grateful 

Spud. 

[spudmiga]

Say is one of the first things I install on a new system! I usually grab the files from OS2.04, but the 1.3 versions do have that more "classic" sound

I did not realise that the 1.3 voice is different to the 2.x voice.
That is interesting, I do have 2.04 and 2.05 disks at my disposal, for whatever reason I took it from 1.3.

What is the difference?

[spudmiga]

Wasn't there also a talking word processor?

Yeah, I have a recollection of an advertisement or article in Amazing Computing or Amiga World about something like that. Can't remember the name, though   

I think either Final Writer or Wordworth can also read back what you've written, but I don't think they pitched that feature as a key selling point.

Excellence can do this too 

Spud