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Discovered this nice Talking Clock from Fonix. It is called Timetalk for PC. It is a free download to demonstrate the capabilities of this companies text to speech capabilitied built on Microsofts Speech SDK 5.
It will call out the time in a female voice when you choose. You can also set an alarm. It sits in your system tray. The web site is:
http://www.fonix.com/
Dan
Let me know what you think.
One thing to note is that the MS Speech SDK will not play if something else is using the audio card (such as an MP3 player). At least it won't on any of my systems...
damm MS taking over again! ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Aaron Cake:
<STRONG>One thing to note is that the MS Speech SDK will not play if something else is using the audio card (such as an MP3 player). At least it won't on any of my systems...</STRONG>
Aaron, what kinds of sound cards do you have? You seem like you'd know if your coundcard couldn't handle multiple output streams, but it's worth asking about.
I had an old soundblaster 8 that wouldn't play any sound if winamp was playing. But I upgraded my soundcard and suddenly all this other sound was interrupting my music (but in a good way, i guess).
You sure it's not that your coundcards just can't handle multiple streams? I've never used the speech SDK but it just seems like a setup issue to me.
At least with every soundcard i've used that's DirectX compatable:
set every software program you can to use DirectX output. This allows you to combine sounds, whether or not your sound card supports it, because it is done in software. However, if the sounds you want to mix are not all DirectX, then this probably won't work. Some cards seem to have weird abilities, like playing a DirectX and non-DirectX stream at once, but not 2 of one kind. Anyways, might be worth a shot since i know winamp will play into directx. make sure that whatever option talking about cooperativism is set to the most cooperative setting.
You're from Colorado Springs? I was just there three weeks ago. Nice place, but it snowed Friday night, and was very cold Saturday. But climbing mountains was fun. Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to check out any of the Tesla stuff, so perhaps I will go back...
It wouldn't be hard at all to create a control for winamp that lets you set whenever you want to have the sound played..
SB Live! is capable of playing 8 streams at the same time.