Using the Speak Applet

The Speak applet demonstrates the DECtalk Software voice set. Each picture * displayed in the Speak dialog represents one of the nine built-in voices. You can select a specific voice by clicking on the picture. DECtalk Software then uses the selected voice to speak the contents of a text file displayed in the edit window or from a file you drag and drop from the Windows File Manager into the edit window.

* Note that the faces are cartoon characters when using VGA 16-color mode.

Using the DECtalk Software Speak applet, you can:

btn_mini.gif Edit and play text

btn_mini.gif Change the speaking rate

btn_mini.gif Load a user dictionary

btn_mini.gif Save text as a WAVE file

btn_mini.gif Highlight text as it is spoken