[DECtalk] SB Talker

mattias mjonsson1986 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 03:05:08 EDT 2014


don't try this on 64 bit win7
Jim Hunt skrev 2014-07-10 21:57:
>
> Hi Blake and all,
>
> .  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.
>
> 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.)
>
> To test SBTalker, type the following at the command line and press enter:
>
> Read Hello world, this is a test.
>
> 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.
>
> You can also run the sbaitso2 program and chat with Dr. Sbaitso.
>
> 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.)
>
> Hope all this helps.  When I get time, I'll put together a little 
> bundle package of SBTalker with TinyTalk.
>
> Jim
>
> *From:*dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com 
> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] *On Behalf Of *Blake Roberts
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 09, 2014 11:24 PM
> *To:* 'DECtalk Discussions'
> *Subject:* Re: [DECtalk] SB Talker
>
> 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?
>
> Blake
>
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> *From:*dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com 
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> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] *On Behalf Of *Jim Hunt
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 09, 2014 10:55 PM
> *To:* 'DECtalk Discussions'
> *Subject:* Re: [DECtalk] SB Talker
>
> Hi Blake,
>
> 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.
>
> Jim
>
> *From:*dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com 
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> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] *On Behalf Of *Blake Roberts
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 09, 2014 10:26 PM
> *To:* 'DECtalk Discussions'
> *Subject:* Re: [DECtalk] SB Talker
>
> 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.
>
> Blake
>
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> *From:*dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com 
> <mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> 
> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] *On Behalf Of *Jim Hunt
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 09, 2014 9:21 PM
> *To:* 'DECtalk Discussions'
> *Subject:* [DECtalk] SB Talker
>
> 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 www.TheWaybackMachine.org 
> <http://www.TheWaybackMachine.org>, LOL.  Enjoy.  Carlos, if you want 
> to put it in the archive under Software, feel free.
>
> Jim
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