My Mute Amiga 3000

[TjLaZer]

I have a strange one for you guys! I have this A3000 I restored. I got it in a lot from a local guy.  Fired right up when I got it.  Tested it out and it seems to works great. Opened it up and inspected the inside.  It had a very slightly leaking battery so I remove it, cleaned up the area and replaced with an AmigaKit coin cell kit. No corrosion around chips or anything. Seems to work perfect! But I noticed something odd:  Speech does not work!  Sounds works just fine. I thought maybe it was missing libs or narrator.device, etc. Looked into it more and all libs are there and should be working. Also boot from a WB 1.3 and 2.04 disk and tried the Say command with no sound. Just silence. Tried to kickstart to 1.3 and 2.04 and ever 3.1. Speech is not working! Any ideas???

[lassie]

I have a strange one for you guys! I have this A3000 I restored. I got it in a lot from a local guy.  Fired right up when I got it.  Tested it out and it seems to works great. Opened it up and inspected the inside.  It had a very slightly leaking battery so I remove it, cleaned up the area and replaced with an AmigaKit coin cell kit. No corrosion around chips or anything. Seems to work perfect! But I noticed something odd:  Speech does not work!  Sounds works just fine. I thought maybe it was missing libs or narrator.device, etc. Looked into it more and all libs are there and should be working. Also boot from a WB 1.3 and 2.04 disk and tried the Say command with no sound. Just silence. Tried to kickstart to 1.3 and 2.04 and ever 3.1. Speech is not working! Any ideas???

Have you tried another monitor? i have tried the same with speech not worked and i found out after a while, that it was my monitor there was broken.

[Steady]

It must be a mil-spec machine. It won't talk no matter what you do to it! ;-)

P.S. Is translator.library in libs: ?

[TjLaZer]

Bump.  Any other ideas?

[Steady]

That was a stupid comment I put earlier. I don't even remember writing it.

Sounds like you have everything you should need for speech if audio is working. I have two more suggestions:

1) Are the translator.library and narrator.device both the correct version? Perhaps one is a lower version than required by Say on your installation (assuming Say even checks).

2) Do you have other sound generating programs running at any point before you attempt to use the speech software? Perhaps a program you ran earlier tied up the sound resources and didn't free them. I'm pretty sure speech needs all audio channels to work because it uses one channel to modulate the other. Try booting with no startup-sequence and see if it works.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I vaguely remember speech wouldn't work on anything other than 1.3 ROM and 1.3 Workbench.
Did you type in the command correctly?

[magnetic]

I vaguely remember speech wouldn't work on anything other than 1.3 ROM and 1.3 Workbench.
Did you type in the command correctly?

This is not true speech will work with all amiga os afaik. For instance, the Classic wb distro aimed for 3.x users has speech built in.

[Astral]

SnoopDos?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Try SpeechToy2 on Aminet? I assume other sounds play okay?

[Tenacious]

Long shot.  The 3000 is the only model (I think) that backs up more than just the RTC with the battery.  A few system variables are stored as well.  I thought they were about the SCSI interface only.  Maybe not.  I believe there is a utility on Aminet that resets the variables to factory defaults.   I can't remember the name, but, it shouldn't be hard to search.

IIRC, OS2.04 had the latest speech revision before C= stopped including it in the OS.  You're lucky to have it.

[TjLaZer]

Long shot.  The 3000 is the only model (I think) that backs up more than just the RTC with the battery.  A few system variables are stored as well.  I thought they were about the SCSI interface only.  Maybe not.  I believe there is a utility on Aminet that resets the variables to factory defaults.   I can't remember the name, but, it shouldn't be hard to search.

IIRC, OS2.04 had the latest speech revision before C= stopped including it in the OS.  You're lucky to have it.

Thanks, I will have to try that out.  This is a strange one I tell ya.  Sound works great, no issues.  The true test to see if the software being the correct versions, etc is to boot from a WB disk and try the Say command.  This works on all other amigas, regardless of Kickstart version.

[lost_loven]

Must be missing something.
Anything i can look at to help?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOzkeU1diEU&feature=youtu.be

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