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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Blake and all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>. To run SB Talker from the command line on Windows 7, you’ll want to be in the directory where your copy of SB Talker currently resides (i.e. “C:\Users\Username\My Documents\SB Talker” or C:\SBTalker). Or, you can copy SB Talker to C:\SBTalker and put that directory in your path.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Once you’re in the SBTalker directory, run SBTalk.bat to load the driver. That’s SBTalk.bat, not SBTalker.exe. (If you run SBTalker.exe, you’ll get an error message that says the driver cannot be loaded.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>To test SBTalker, type the following at the command line and press enter:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Read Hello world, this is a test.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If you want to do further playing around with the Read program, type read and press enter. Here you can type a line you’d like read back to you and press enter. When you’re done in the Read program, press Control-C to get back to the command line.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>You can also run the sbaitso2 program and chat with Dr. Sbaitso.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>When you’re done playing with SBTalker, you can unload the SBTalker driver by typing remove. (This doesn’t delete the driver file, it just unloads it from resident memory.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hope all this helps. When I get time, I’ll put together a little bundle package of SBTalker with TinyTalk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Jim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com [mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Blake Roberts<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 09, 2014 11:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'DECtalk Discussions'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] SB Talker<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>I remember using TinyTalk. It is the only screen readerfor DOS I know of that spoke via SBTalker. In order to use SBTalker on Windows 7, do I need to enter any specific command-line parameters?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Blake<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a> [<a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Hunt<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 09, 2014 10:55 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'DECtalk Discussions'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] SB Talker</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Blake,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I was able to get SB Talker working somewhat with command-line tests on my netbook running Windows 7 32-bit. I used to use SB Talker with TinyTalk, which I also found. I haven’t played around with TinyTalk recently though.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Jim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a> [<a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Blake Roberts<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 09, 2014 10:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'DECtalk Discussions'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DECtalk] SB Talker<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Thanks Jim. I have found this zip on other sites over the years but it is definitely hard to find. Although I can't get the programs in the zip file to run on Windows 7 i.e. sbtalker.exe, they should run under Windows XP. I remember getting sbtalker.exe and sbaitso2 to run on XP a few years ago even though I was not using a Sound Blaster card. I used the Sbaitso program which uses SBTalker primarily in my DOS days and had a lot of fun with it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Blake<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a> [<a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Hunt<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 09, 2014 9:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'DECtalk Discussions'<br><b>Subject:</b> [DECtalk] SB Talker</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here is SB Talker, for DOS, from Creative Labs. It’s circa 1991. I had to do some digging to find it, accessing old archives of NFBNet.org via <a href="http://www.TheWaybackMachine.org">www.TheWaybackMachine.org</a>, LOL. Enjoy. 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