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Re: [ECS] Soundcard Question Scott Danks Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:13:09 -0500

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 Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:13:09 -0500
Well, no.  I used the program that comes with msttsl called mouth...(something like
that).  Anyway, it talks when you type in text, and you can select the voice.  It says
"Mike" and "Mike for telephone".  My assumption was that THEY created the voice with
the 8 khz sampling rate..... I was not even running ECS.  Maybe your software does something
else?  Oh and changing from win98 to win95 did not help.  I did notice I have no cache
chips on the motherboard, and it only uses internal cpu cache.  Maybe I need more of
those. . . 

>>> Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net> 08/26 11:14 AM >>>
Scott,
I assume that you only set the "WAVE ENGINE" Parameter
of the TTS Item to "... (for Telephone)" ?
You worried me with the "using msttsl" comment below.

FYI: My 66MHZ/W95 only stutters occasionally.
Perhaps W98 is using more CPU time.
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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
http://www.usit.com/omnip 
423-745-0026


Scott Danks wrote:
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> First of all, is anyone running ECS on a 486/66?
> 
> passes/sec WAS about 12 -20 before it was limited to 4 now.  (Which really helps with
the system doing other things....Thanks Mark).  But, I have an Aztec 2320 card.  I tried
win98 and went back to win95, but the sound card breaks up the speech when talking.
 I have changed it to the "telephone" voice (8 khz) (using msttsl.exe), and this did
not make a diff.  I am thinking that I have a cheap sound card that I might want to
replace.  It is about 5-6 years old.  Has anyone had similar problems?  I might just
give up and change to a pentium 200 or so.  The new html manual takes about 3-4 minutes
to load with ie 3.02 on this 486 (just fyi).
> 
> Is there a new minimum recommended system with all these new enhancements?
> 
> Scott.

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