[Blindapple] Speech Utilities Disk, revision 2 is ready

[Brandon Cross]

Here is the demo, it goes on for a bit, and I was having some problems in
the beginning but here goes:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hduj4ignw425q7s/phonemedemo.mp3?dl=0

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net> wrote:

> I would definitely appreciate an audio demo of phoneme mode. Although I
> heard a short demo of it a couple of years ago, I never understood how to
> use it. In fact, the phoneem mode program on useful.dsk is the first time I
> was able to try it out.
>
> Blake
>
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> *From:* BlindApple [mailto:blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Brandon Cross
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 15, 2017 3:18 PM
>
> *To:* Blind Apple Discussions
> *Subject:* Re: [Blindapple] Speech Utilities Disk, revision 2 is ready
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>
> you wouldn't see the commands necessary to make the phonemes because I
> have not had them printed to the screen, only spoken. Also, I can do that
> at the end, however you wouldn't see all the text, I had to make it clear
> the screen twice through the program because it would overflow the screen.
> The apple will scroll down if I didn't do that, and you wouldn't see all
> the text either. I can work on making that program use paging though, where
> at the end of every screen, you're asked to hit a key to continue.
>
>
>
> If you guys are interested in phoneme mode, I can make an audio demo of
> how to use it.
>
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>
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net>
> wrote:
>
> I like your intro program, number 3 on the menu. I suggest that after the
> intro is done, the user should press a key to return to menu. That way I
> can use the Textalker review commands to read lines of the intro screen at
> my leisure such as the commands to create the phonetic mode demo.
>
> Blake
>
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> *From:* BlindApple [mailto:blindapple-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Brandon Cross
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 15, 2017 2:14 PM
> *To:* Blind Apple Discussions
> *Subject:* Re: [Blindapple] Speech Utilities Disk, revision 2 is ready
>
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>
> I can do that, though I don't think the apple is the best medium of
> reading that information, did you check out the intro program, #3 on the
> menu, and hear the little demo oat the end of it?  If I did have a file
> that listed out the phonemes, some of them are shifted number keys, so
> you'd want punctuation on most to review that.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Jeff Weiss <jeff-weiss at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Brandon and list,
>
> I like the new edition much better.  The menu  is very nice.
>
>
>
> One suggestion I would like to see in a future release would be a text
> file containing the phoneme chart and just a little information about how
> to use them.  I don’t know how long this list would be or if you have it on
> disk or just in print, but it would make a nice edition to your disk.
>
> thanks,
>
> Jeff Weiss
>
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> *From:* Brandon Cross <bcross3286 at gmail.com>
>
> *Sent:* Friday, July 14, 2017 10:41 PM
>
> *To:* Blind Apple Discussions <blindapple at bluegrasspals.com>
>
> *Subject:* [Blindapple] Speech Utilities Disk, revision 2 is ready
>
>
>
> So the disk that I released that had the two programs is now in revision
> two. There is now a menu, and all programs when they terminate will call
> the menu again. The same two programs are there, but they now have a bit of
> intraductary text at runtime. There is a 3rd intro option, which launches a
> new program on the disk, and gives a bit of info about the other programs.
> At the end of this, you'll find a phoneme demo, of what can be done using
> the phoneme mode of the Echo.
>
>
>
> Todo list
>
> 1. have each program forgo the startup text after you've run it at least
> once per boot of the machine
>
> 2. add a copy utility to the disk
>
> 3. perhaps add a lightweight word processor, if there is sufficient space.
>
> 4. Add a program that recalls phonemes from a texdt tile and reads them
> line by line.
>
>
>
> User feedback welcome, let me know what else I should do. I'll give it my
> best shot, I'm not a coder really, and I'm surprised this is working to be
> quite frank about it.
>
>
>
> The link is https://www.dropbox.com/s/rv27pesi12sibwc/useful.DSK?dl=1
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