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- July, 1991
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- Files on this disk. The following files are included on this
- diskette:
- 1. KINSTALL.EXE -- Initializes, converts, and installs
- KANSYS, Inc. software.
- 2. PROVOX.COM -- The PROVOX memory resident program.
- 3. PROVOX.DOC -- The PROVOX manual.
- 4. HOT.EXE -- The "Hands On Trainer" tutorial program.
- 5. QUIET.COM -- Utility program to deactivate PROVOX.
- 6. SPEAK.COM -- Utility program to reactivate PROVOX.
- 7. FETCH.COM -- Utility to load a PROVOX configuration.
- 8. READ.ME -- This file.
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- Installation. The program KINSTALL.EXE will (1) initialize
- your new KANSYS, Inc. software, (2) convert it from a demo to a
- permanent version, and (3) install its critical files on your
- computer. For steps one and two, KINSTALL and the PROVOX software
- must both reside on a floppy disk that is not write-protected,
- and must be placed in your A: or your B: drive. For all three
- steps, the other files comprising your new software must reside
- in the same directory as KINSTALL. To initialize, convert, and
- install your new software, simply type "INSTALL" at the A: or the
- B: prompt, press "enter," and follow directions. Note: if you
- have free demo versions of our software, KINSTALL omits the
- initialization and conversion steps, and performs only the
- installation step.
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- The following information should provide the experienced
- user with enough details to get PROVOX up and running. However,
- to fully use the many features of the program, it will be
- necessary to read the manual. It is in a file called PROVOX.DOC
- and we of course encourage you to use our program RALPH THE
- READER to read it.
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- If you have any questions or problems, please contact Chuck
- Hallenbeck at 913-843-0351.
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- The PROVOX Command Line
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- PROVOX is run by typing its name at a DOS prompt, or by
- placing its name in a batch file for automatic execution. In both
- cases the file containing the PROVOX program must exist in the
- current directory or in a directory on the DOS "path" (see your
- DOSmanual for details about "paths"). Whether you type "PROVOX"
- or place "PROVOX" in a batch file, you may follow the command
- with optional additional information to achieve special effects.
- There are three optional switches and three other optional
- arguments from which to choose.
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- The switches are /Q, /`, and a slash followed by a single
- digit, such as /1, /2, /3, etcetera. The /Q switch causes PROVOX
- to load and become resident without talking or playing its
- initial tune. It will produce no speech until you run the "SPEAK"
- command to activate it. The PROVOX Prefix Key is normally the
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- Slash (/) key. The /` switch will redefine the Prefix Key to the
- Accent (`) key. The slash digit combination causes PROVOX to
- search in the current directory for a PROVOX CONFIG file using
- that digit, and to load that file to establish initial
- conditions. The switch /1 looks for CONFIG1.PV3, the switch /2
- looks for CONFIG2.PV3, and so on. It is not necessary to include
- the switch /0 at all, since PROVOX looks for CONFIG0.PV3 in the
- current directory if no slash digit switch is included. In these
- switches, the slash must be preceded by a blank space, and must
- be followed immediately by the letter Q (either upper or lower
- case), the accent character, or the digit to which it refers.
- Only one slash digit switch (the last one encountered) will be
- recognized; the relative order of the three switches is not
- important.
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- The three arguments permit you to specify the speech device
- for PROVOX to use, and whether that device is to be found at a
- parallel port or a serial port, and if a serial port, what the
- baud rate should be. You may not specify both a parallel and a
- serial port, and you may only specify a port if you first specify
- a device. No slash is used to introduce these arguments. A blank
- space must precede the first letter of each argument. The device
- names and their meanings are as follows:
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- SYN200 Artic Technologies SynPhonix 200/210/215 board.
- PORTTALK Artic Technologies PORTTALK interface.
- DTPC R.C. Systems Double Talk PC board.
- AUDAPTER Audapter from Personal Data Systems.
- PSS Votrax Personal Speech System.
- ECHO Street Electronics ECHO GP/PC.
- PCECHO internal Echo boards from Street Electronics.
- BNS Blazie Engineering Braille 'N Speak.
- AMIGA The AMIGA 500 Speak-Easy System.
- ACCENT AICOM ACCENT boards and external devices.
- *DECTALK Digital Equipment Corp. DECTALK.
- VANILLA Generic or "plain vanilla" output.
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- (please note that entries preceded by an asterisk "*" are
- not supported by the present version of PROVOX.)
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- When first run, PROVOX searches for "SONIX" to determine the
- presence of the SYN200 board. Both SONIX and TTS, or the combined
- SONIXTTS driver, from Artic Technologies must be run before
- running PROVOX. If found, the Synphonix 200/210 device becomes
- the default device. If not found, PROVOX tests for the presence
- of the Double Talk PC board from R.C. Systems, and if it is found
- it becomes the default. If neither board is present, the generic
- or "plain vanilla" device is the default. In the case of the
- VANILLA driver, it defaults to COM1 and uses 9600 baud. Any of
- these defaults may be over-ridden by including one of the device
- names from the above table. Only one such name should be included
- on the PROVOX command line.
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- With the exception of the SYN200 and the DTPC devices, all
- devices supported by PROVOX assume that you are using serial port
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- COM1 at 9600 baud for speech output. If this assumption is
- correct, you need not use the optional arguments that specify an
- output port. However, if you want to direct PROVOX to another
- serial port, or to use another baud rate, or to send output to a
- parallel port, there are two arguments that may be used. The
- letters "LPT" followed by a digit indicate a parallel port, as in
- LPT1, LPT2, etcetera. The letters "COM" followed by a digit
- indicate a serial port, as in COM1, COM2, etcetera. The serial
- port argument may be followed by a colon (:) and the first two
- digits of the baud rate if desired. The numbers you may use are:
- 96 for 9600 baud, 48 for 4800 baud, 24 for 2400 baud, 12 for 1200
- baud, 60 for 600 baud, 30 for 300 baud, 15 for 150 baud, and 75
- for 75 baud. No spaces should appear next to the colon. You may
- use upper or lower case letters in all these arguments.
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- If you use a locked Artic Technologies SynPhonix board,
- you must first run the Sonix-2 program, called "SONIXTTS.COM"
- available only from Artic Technologies.
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