[Blindapple] source for echo II

[Guillem León]

No. KNG can only run on either Windows CE or old Windows systems. I don't know if it is possible to emulate KeySoft, maybe with an older version that doesn't require a key file. I may try to rip the system files out of my VN Classic, which is running KeySoft 5.1

> On 29 Jan 2016, at 17:54, Josh K <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> i wonder if the same could or something similar done for keynote gold?
> 
> follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982
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> On 1/29/2016 11:49 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The problem is that the Echo card itself has absolutely no ability to generate speech from text. All the Echo really is, when it comes right down to it, is a chip that turns a certain type of LPC data into sound. That's all it is.
>> 
>> The Textalker software running on the Apple, and using the Apple's processor, memory, etc. turns text into phonemes, then turns those phonemes into the proper control signals and timings to send to the Echo card to generate the right sounds. So when you hear Echo speech, all but the last step, that of actually generating the sound you hear, was done in software running on the Apple.
>> 
>> If the Textalker source code still exists anywhere, I don't know it, and wouldn't know who to ask. Even if it did, it would almost certainly be written in 6502 assembly, the 6502 and its variants being the microprocessor used by Apple II computers. There was a version of the Echo for PC, but again, the Textalker software would probably have been written in 8086 assembly.
>> 
>> The bottom line is that emulating the hardware would probably not be a problem, but that wouldn't get you much. Textalker would probably have to be completely rewritten from scratch in order for it to work on anything modern.
>> 
>> A possibly more attractive idea would be to have a really stripped down Apple emulator which did emulate the Echo card, and create a custom disk for it which could interface with NVDA running on the PC in order to have the Echo act as a speech synthesizer plugin for NVDA.
>> 
>> Jayson
>> 
>> On 1/27/2016 1:16 AM, Guillem León wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Yes, MESS itself is completely open-source. The problem is that the Echo II card is being directly emulated. So if you wanted to use it in external applications you would have to find a way to get that emulation working for all the parts of the card (the TMS5220, the text-to-speech part, the audio output) and I'm not sure how that would work.
>>> 
>>>> On 27 Jan 2016, at 05:06, Jason Custer <jscuster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi.
>>>> 
>>>> Really enjoying the apple emulator, takes me back. Just curious, is the code for the echo II open source? Just curious.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jason
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