The Talking Amiga

[mrmoonlight]

I am sure there was a piece of software for the Amiga 1200 that by inputting written words the Amiga would talk ,but I cant for the life of me remember what it was or what it was called ,any one have a clue please ,best wishes Brian

[Amiga_Nut]

The two demo programs that did text to speech for you (one was more sophisticated BASIC program) from the Workbench 1.x disks still work on all KS2/KS3.x Amigas.

I never understood why Commodore didn't spent a few extra pennies in maximising what was STILL an impressive party piece of the Amiga ie perfectly acceptable text to speech in hardware/software (PAULA/Libraries) when MS/IBM/APPLE were all parading their overpriced or rubbish freebie versions like prize cocks even though they were a decade late to that particular party

What I would like to know is were there any more sophisticated versions ever produced in PD or for sale commercially?

When I get a chance I am going to do a crazy video of singing Amigas lol

[Bamiga2002]

It's "Say"
http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

[Amiga_Nut]

It's "Say"
http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

There is also the more sophisticated version (written in Amiga BASIC?) that allows much more control over how everything is said too on the Extras disk too remember.

[vince_6]

When I get a chance I am going to do a crazy video of singing Amigas lol

That would be great!!!
Do you remember an AFCD or was it Amiga Magazine with a very small demo song where an Amiga was speaking with echo?

[ferrellsl]

I am sure there was a piece of software for the Amiga 1200 that by inputting written words the Amiga would talk ,but I cant for the life of me remember what it was or what it was called ,any one have a clue please ,best wishes Brian

If I remember correctly, you could invoke speech from the CLI by typing the "say" command.  But you also need "speak-handler" and must mount the "SPEAK:" device before your Amiga will output any speech. The translator.library also plays a part but I can't remember the details after so many years.

I.e.

CLI> say "Hello world"

The output sounded fairly synthetic but it did a very good job of translating text to speech.  It sounded very much like the speech that the C64 could output and I think the Amiga speak: device was based on code from the C64.

[QuikSanz]

Say is really past due for an update with modern prefs.

Chris

[desiv]

They got rid of it (last release was in kickstart 2.0x apparently) for 2.1 and later..
So not native for the 1200, but could easily be added:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=203238&postcount=8

desiv

[QuikSanz]

It bangs the hardware and won't run native on OS4, needs to be modernized.  Saved links for my 68k machines...

[Karlos]

It bangs the hardware and won't run native on OS4, needs to be modernized.  Saved links for my 68k machines...

It will probably run on OS4 on a classic. That said, I'm sure there was an AHI version of the narrator.device on aminet some years ago.

[Tenacious]

They got rid of it (last release was in kickstart 2.0x apparently) for 2.1 and later..
So not native for the 1200, but could easily be added:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=203238&postcount=8

desiv

True.  The last version that shipped with WB2.05 was updated (more parameters) over the version that shipped with WB1.3.  

I don't know for certain which version is now included with the BetterWB enhancement, but, I think it is the 2.05 version.  Thanks Gulliver!

NOTE TO ADMIN!:  What has happened to this site?  Posting & editing is difficult now.  It's hard to log in and then the site logs me out after just a few minutes.  It's very frustrating!

[mrmoonlight]

They got rid of it (last release was in kickstart 2.0x apparently) for 2.1 and later..
So not native for the 1200, but could easily be added:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=203238&postcount=8
 
desiv

Hey ive got workbench 2.05 is that any good ,lol
 
  Hi say is on the workbench 2.05 and it works brilliant   if I input   < I love you Brian ,it repeats   I love you Brain  lol  I will have to teach it

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Say is really past due for an update with modern prefs.

SpeechToy2 is free on Aminet and has "modern prefs" (i.e., sliders you can use to control all the options).  Don't know why more people aren't aware of this program, I've been using it on my Amiga's as a Say replacement for about the past 20 years.  

[mrmoonlight]

Hey ive got workbench 2.05 is that any good ,lol
 
Hi say is on the workbench 2.05 and it works brilliant if I input < I love you Brian ,it repeats I love you Brain lol I will have to teach it

Hi managed to shoot a quick video to show the Amiga 600 using say and reciting  a Hard days night by the Beatles ,cant stop laughing it may be naff but I think its brilliant and thanks for all the input  best wishes Brian
here's the link    
 http://youtu.be/gZSSnvJJSBI

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

You can use punctuation to break up that run-on sentence, might sound a little better.