Professor Hawking On XP...Oh Yes !

[Guest spacecowboy6982]

This is the funniest thing yet !! Your own Prof. Hawkings on XP !!!

Control Panel, Sound Speech and audio devices, speech.

Now in the dialog box type in ANYTHING !!!

Already recorded it to the dictaphone for down the pub later on !

God, so many mis spent days...

[Guest Greywolf_Ghost]

As far as I was aware, Microsoft Agent ( text to speech ) has been available since Win95. Not as part of the 95 set up but a downloadable addition.

For some time I had a wizzard who used the Agent TTS to read my ICQ inbound messages. There were variations of it for Yahoo, MSN.

It got to be a pain after a bit.

However if you interested in The Microsoft Agent Characters start here.

http://www.msagentring.org/

There are sites just for that app .

( MASH was another addition to help make custom sayings and motion )

[Guest spacecowboy6982]

Thats really cool - mind you a bit confusing !

Cheers 4 the tip !

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

MASH is great, creates code for your VB apps or web pages too :-)

Maybe mid should make a MoDaCo Dude agent character we could use around the site using the MS Agent ActiveX control ;-) (j/k)

P

[Guest fraser]

Wasn't there text to speach software for the like of the Commodore 64 & Speccy days? Dr Hawkings (respect!) has had his speach thing for a very long time. Probably doesn't want to upgrade, 'cos no one will recognise his voice. :wink:

[Guest JabbaTheSlut]

One of my friends went to one of his lectures a few years ago, and he runs on Windows himself, halfway through his terminal crashed, and a techie came out, and rebooted him, chiming the Windows theme out! brill!

Jabba

[Guest fraser]

You'd think Microsoft would use that as a marketing point! :wink:

[edit] Well. not the crash part though!