From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: carl.lowenstein@gmail.com (Carl Lowenstein) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:44:02 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak.... In-Reply-To: <46b366130910261029g52e47beavf1011a123d5839c4@mail.gmail.com> References: <46b366130910261029g52e47beavf1011a123d5839c4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5904d5730910261044g524b1c11i71f34a1de5c1cab6@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jason Stevens 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 -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein at ucsd.edu _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs