[TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak....

[TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak....

[Jason Stevens]

I was going to upload the various man pages of 32/V so I'd have a 'nice'
collection of them, and to help with my eventual conversion of the help text
into RTF for a windows helpfile when I was reading through the number
command...

http://gunkies.org/wiki/32v_1m_number


Number copies the standard input to the standard output, changing each
> decimal number to a fully spelled out version. Punctuation is added to make
> the output sound well when played through speak(1).


So it seems that VAX's could do audio at some point?  Does anyone know how
it worked?  Naturally the speak command seems to be missing, but it does
seem very interesting...!

I wonder if this was the start of the UNIX/IVR relationship....?

Thanks!

Jason
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[TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak....

[John Cowan]

Jason Stevens scripsit:

> So it seems that VAX's could do audio at some point?  Does anyone know how
> it worked?  Naturally the speak command seems to be missing, but it does
> seem very interesting...!

I think the speaker was an RS-232 device.

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[TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak....

[Ian King]

There's also a Qbus device that was intended for IVR systems, called DECtalk.  That was hosted on a MicroVAX system.  (I have the voice synth card but not the D/A card....)  -- isk 

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> Jason Stevens scripsit:
> 
> > So it seems that VAX's could do audio at some point?  Does anyone
> know how
> > it worked?  Naturally the speak command seems to be missing, but it
> does
> > seem very interesting...!
> 
> I think the speaker was an RS-232 device.
> 
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[TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak....

[Carl Lowenstein]

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going to upload the various man pages of 32/V so I'd have a 'nice'
> collection of them, and to help with my eventual conversion of the help text
> into RTF for a windows helpfile when I was reading through the number
> command...
> http://gunkies.org/wiki/32v_1m_number
>
>> Number copies the standard input to the standard output, changing each
>> decimal number to a fully spelled out version. Punctuation is added to make
>> the output sound well when played through speak(1).
>
> So it seems that VAX's could do audio at some point?  Does anyone know how
> it worked?  Naturally the speak command seems to be missing, but it does
> seem very interesting...!

See "Votrax" in Wikipedia for more information.  "Vocal division of
Federal Screw Works".
A speech synthesizer, predecessor of Digital's DECtalk.

> I wonder if this was the start of the UNIX/IVR relationship....?

What's IVR?

    carl
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