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- TINYTALK DISTRIBUTION FILES, VERSION 1.10
-
- READ.ME What you're doing right now
- TTALK.DOC User guide
- TTALK.QRF Quick reference to hotkeys and review commands
- ORDER.DOC Ordering information
- SYNINFO.DOC Names/addresses of synthesizer manufacturers
- SAMPLE.TTK Sample configuration file for WordPerfect
-
- IF YOU ORDERED TINYTALK ON 5.25" DISKS, THE FOLLOWING FILES ARE STORED IN
- COMPRESSED FORMAT. USE TTCOPY TO COPY THEM:
-
- TTCONF.EXE Configuration load/save/view utility
-
- TTACCENT.EXE Tinytalk for Accent synthesizers
- TTASP.EXE Tinytalk for the Automated Functions ASP board
- TTAUDAPT.EXE Tinytalk for the Audapter
- TTBGM.EXE Tinytalk for the BG Micro Computalker board
- TTBLAST.EXE Tinytalk for the SoundBlaster
- TTBNS.EXE Tinytalk for the Braille 'n Speak
- TTDEC.EXE Tinytalk for the Dectalk
- TTDEMO.EXE Tinytalk for the PC's internal speaker (not really suitable
- for serious use; provided for demonstration purposes)
- TTDOUBLE.EXE Tinytalk for the Doubletalk PC
- TTECHO.EXE Tinytalk for the Echo PC/GP
- TTINTECH.EXE Tinytalk for the Echo PCII internal card
- TTLAPTLK.EXE Tinytalk for the Laptalk or LiteTalk (not to be confused with
- the Automated Functions Laptalker, which uses TTASP)
- TTPSSA.EXE Tinytalk for the Votrax PSS model A
- TTPSSB.EXE Tinytalk for the Votrax PSS model B
- TTSONIX.EXE Tinytalk for Sonix-interface synthesizers (Artic, Votalker)
- TTSOUND.EXE Tinytalk for the Soundingboard (also compatible with any
- synthesizer that supports PortTalk)
- TTSTHING.EXE Tinytalk for the Speech Thing
- TTTNT.EXE Tinytalk for the Votrax Type&Talk
-
- THE FOLLOWING TWO FILES ARE INCLUDED WITH REGISTERED VERSIONS ONLY:
-
- CVTCONF.EXE Convert version 1.0x configuration files to 1.10 format
- UPDATE.EXE Transfer registration to unregistered copy
-
- THE FOLLOWING TWO FILES ARE FOUND ONLY ON 5.25" DISTRIBUTION DISKS
-
- TTCOPY.BAT Extract files from archive
- LHA.EXE General-purpose archiving utility used by TTCOPY
-
- RELEASE NOTES
-
- 1.10-Major upgrade 4/25/92
- NEW SYNTHESIZERS SUPPORTED
- Braille 'n Speak now has its own version
- Votrax PSS (models A and B)
- SoundBlaster
- Speech Thing
- BUG FIXES
- Cursor routing now works in WordPerfect 5.1 when using 101-key keyboards
- Configuration files can now be exchanged between synthesizers without
- messing up settings
- Punctuation now always spoken if reading character at a time
- NEW FEATURES
- Hotkey remapping
- Keyboard labelling
- Single hotkeys for window reading
- Text search windows
- Configuration switch windows
- Improved case identification
- 30 configurations in memory
- Independent control of reading and keyboard echo punctuation
- Spelling of words with digits now optional
- Option for word terminator in word-at-a-time cursor movements
- "Indefinite" option for timed shutup
- Configurations can be switched by typing partial name
- Tone option for Echo GP: pitched or flat
- Configuration initially defaults to zero
- TTCONF can be given config number or name within library when loading
- Beep option for defined and auto-popup windows
- DOCUMENTATION
- Substantial rewrite of user manual
- Quick reference guide
- OTHER CHANGES
- VIEWCONF no longer exists--use TTCONF VIEW
- Registered version includes CVTCONF utility to change old configuration
- libraries to new format
- Registered version no longer stores user name (old scheme made dealer
- distribution awkward)
- Executables are stored in archive on 5.25" disks (otherwise they wouldn't
- fit on one disk)
- CONFIGURATION FILES CREATED WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS ARE NO LONGER
- COMPATIBLE
-
- 1.09g-Maintenance release 2/16/92
- BUG FIXES
- TTINTECH and TTDEMO stuttering fixed
-
- 1.09f-Maintenance release 2/8/92
- BUG FIXES
- TTSOUND now passes punctuation through to take advantage of sentence
- delay, etc.
-
- 1.09e-Maintenance release 2/3/92
- BUG FIXES
- BIOS-dependent handshaking problems with Dectalk
-
- 1.09d-Maintenance release 1/29/92
- BUG FIXES
- Loss of words mode echo in 1.09b fixed
-
- 1.09c-Maintenance release 1/26/92
- NEW SYNTHESIZERS SUPPORTED
- Echo PCII internal card
- BUG FIXES
- Laptalk/LiteTalk baud rate detection now works properly
- DOCUMENTATION CHANGES
- ORDER.DOC includes schedule of quantity discounts, site license
- availability, and information for credit card orders.
-
- 1.09b-Maintenance release 12/31/91
- BUGS FIXED
- Loss of handshaking with Accent SA
- Punctuation being pronounced on Accent when it shouldn't be
- Spurious characters spoken under MSDOS 5.0 with ANSI.SYS
-
- 1.09a-Maintenance release 12/23/91
- BUGS FIXED
- Improper backspace echo under MSDOS 5.0 when not using ANSI.SYS
-
- 1.09-Maintenance release 12/11/91
- BUGS FIXED
- Automatically read windows will now shut up properly
- Typing in watch window won't trigger window even if in insert mode
- Scroll windows no longer read outside their boundaries (was fixed in 1.00
- and then went bad again somewhere along the way)
- NEW FEATURES
- Column read option for cursor movement
- Video attributes read as color pairs rather than numbers
- F9 and shift-F9 keys for direct setting of lightbar attributes
- Configuration name command reads current name before prompting for new
- one
- Can select configuration by typing name as well as number
- Watch windows can be told not to shut up before reading
- OTHER
- Normalized spelling of punctuation (some creative spellings that
- sounded good on some synthesizers sounded awful on others)
-
- 1.08-Maintenance release
- BUGS FIXED
- Properly handles cursor tracking when user is on bottom line of editor
- and text scrolls but cursor doesn't move
- Eliminated mispronunciation of "a" as "uh" when spelling words
- Does not pass translated punctuation through to synthesizer for
- intonation (this was causing unnecessary pauses)
-
- 1.07-Maintenance release
- BUGS FIXED
- Doubletalk can now be shut up when buffer is full
- Spurious echo when keyboard echo turned off has been stopped
- BG Micro shutup problem fixed
- Removed initialization code that may have been messing up some Accent
- synthesizers
- Forms mode no longer interferes with review operations
- Fixed pronunciation of "colon" and "semicolon" on some synthesizers
- Doubletalk now uses uninflected mode
- Inactive lightbar windows no longer interfere with cursor tracking
- Keyboard input of digit no longer forces window output to spell
- Will not disturb user-selected lightbar window attributes
- NEW FEATURES
- Hot key to switch configurations
- Hot key to announce cursor position
- Spell windows
- Option to shut up synthesizer with any keystroke even when echo is off
- Review command to re-initialize synthesizer
- Read word command can spell or phoneticize words
- Floating windows can now be triggered by cursor movements
- Hotkey window read will observe lightbar attributes
- OTHER
- Improved discussion of configurations in manual
-
- 1.06-Maintenance release
- BUGS FIXED
- Alt-Escape now works properly
-
- 1.05-Maintenance release
- NEW SYNTHESIZERS SUPPORTED
- BG Micro Computalker (and other designs based on General Instruments chip
- set)
-
- 1.04-Maintenance release
- BUGS FIXED
- Eliminated keyboard echo of control characters
- Added extra space before punctuation to ensure that "a" is pronounced OK
- Turning off keyboard echo no longer disables cursor tracking
- Hitting any key in words mode echo will shut up synthesizer
- PageUp and PageDown keys will no longer trigger cursor movement action
- (this was causing premature shutups with some programs using BIOS output)
-
- 1.03-Maintenance release
- BUGS FIXED
- Laptalk version now handshakes correctly
-
- 1.02-Maintenance release
- BUGS FIXED
- Dectalk version no longer requires timeout to speak some prompts
-
- 1.01-Maintenance release
- BUGS FIXED
- Accent version now defaults to LPT3 rather than non-existent LPT4
-
- 1.00-First official shareware release
- BUGS FIXED
- Run-on problem with keyboard buzz
- Tone setting for Audapter
- Scroll windows reading outside their boundaries
- Lockup when using automatic configuration
- Shutup problem with Dectalk
- NEW SYNTHESIZERS SUPPORTED
- Doubletalk PC
- Laptalk
- Type&Talk
- Demo version using internal PC speaker
- Sonix synthesizers without Porttalk
- NEW FEATURES
- Reading any window without going into review
- Changes for Paradox: check marks now spoken, additional cursor movement
- options, etc.
- Output options for horizontal cursor moves
- Improved cursor movement detection
- Improved forms mode
- "Silent" verbosity option
- Words without vowels now spelled out on all synthesizers
- Lightbar reading works with highlighted letters
- Smarter automatic lightbar attribute detection
- Allows use of synthesizer number processing if available
- Shutup command now works even when speech is backed up
- Synthesizer settings now say reference numbers.
- User-defined punctuation
- Right margin bell
- Protected attribute alert.
- Environment variable for TTCONF and VIEWCONF
- Direct horizontal cursor move in review
- Relative horizontal and vertical cursor moves in review
- OTHER
- Substantial rewrite of manual.
- VERSION 0.27 CONFIGURATION FILES ARE NO LONGER COMPATIBLE
-
- Copyright 1992 by OMS Development/Eric Bohlman. All rights reserved. See
- TTALK.DOC for conditions of use/distribution.
-