I do, but none of the computers that I have have a serial port. I was hoping that this would be an alternative but I guess not.
> On 18 Feb 2016, at 23:43, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > > Understood, > May I ask what the problem is then? Do you not have an external synthesizer? > I do not use freedos, but a later package of ms dos 7.1 I have no issues, > but I am not using a sound card. > > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote: > >> I have heard about talking dosbox, in fact I helped with the project and I >> made one of the speech synthesis helper applications, but I was hoping to be >> able to have dos running natively without emulation. I have no sight >> whatsoever so I need speech output, and the only ways of speech output >> available are through serial with an external speech synthesizer or via a >> SoundBlaster or compatible with SBTalker, Monologue, TextAssist etc. >> >>> On 18 Feb 2016, at 21:49, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Guillem, >>> granted I am unsure what your goals may be, but have you tried a >>> relatively new project talking dosbox? >>> >>> >>> http://batsupport.com/unsupported/dosbox/00_README.html >>> >>> >>> I can tell you nothing about it save that it is supposed to allow for >>> speech via dosbox using the sound card etc. >>> hope this presents a solution for you. >>> karen >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Guillem León wrote: >>> >>>> Hi. >>>> Yeah, only reason I asked is because right now my only way of running DOS >>>> is actually through dosbox, which would make testing it kind of >>>> impossible. Before I dualboot my PC I want to be sure I'll be able to use >>>> it. If I don't have speech synthesis I can't use the computer. I would run >>>> the screenreaders through HX but the problem is that all the DOS >>>> screenreaders that I know of are 16-bit, and I'm not sure if they'd even >>>> be able to access all the data they need to. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>>> On 17 Feb 2016, at 12:09, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Just for clarification, does this only work with programs loaded >>>>>> inside dosbox inside HX, or is there any way to get it to work under >>>>>> DOS directly, with HX loaded but without DOSbox? I'm still thinking >>>>>> of dualbooting one of my machines with DOS but I need some way of >>>>>> doing either USB serial port emulation or modern soundcard support >>>>>> for speech synthesis. >>>>> >>>>> I do not know, please check the website or try to find out. 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