Billy, have you ever checked out Skype? Its pretty cool. Peter -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TrueBlue & Proud Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:33 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: new chat prog. Doris, I find the Information yu have supplied about mIRC chat, is really helpful. I would like to chat some more about the mIRC program if yu don't mind. Either write off list or use MSN. email. the.loyalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN. billy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx If you have MSN, then that would be really great. You asked about the mircwithspeech program. I found it at: www.thefudge.net Go to downloads. Let me know what yu think. Billy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chipmunks" <chipmunks@xxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:48 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: new chat prog. >I am not quite sure what the question is. > > mIRC is not a new program exactly but has been around for more than 10 > years. It is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client. IRC is text based chat > that allows people to chat either individually or in channels that can > hold several hundred people. There is a multitude of IRC servers and > networks. the nice thing about IRC is that it is cross platform. Aside > from chatting, some people also use irc for file sharing though that is > not the original purpose irc was designed for. > > mIRC is a if not _the_ most popular irc client for windows. it can be > downloaded from > > www.mirc.com > > Since you asked about "mirc with speech", while i am not aware of a > program with the exact same name, mirc has had inbuilt text-to-speech > support using MS Agent technology for the past several years. For this to > work, you need to have the sapi 4 runtime components, the LHS US English > tts engine and at least one MS Agent character installed on your system. > all of these are available from Microsoft for free download. When you have > MS Agent support correctly installed on your system, the entry "agents" > will show up in the sound section of your mirc options and you can > configure the speech settings from there. > > Secondly, a couple of years ago, a helper application that worked as a > bridge between jaws and mirc was released that sent tts output from mirc > to jaws and made jaws speak preconfigured speech output. This helper > application is called "mIRCspeech" and works quite well. It is unfortunate > that its development ceased. There is a link to it from the jfwlite.com > homepage. mircspeech works with versions of jaws as early as 3.5 - at > least that is the earliest version I tried it with. ,g> > > There are also jaws scripts out for mirc that work quite well. I think > they are written for jaws 5.x and up. You can get those jaws scripts from > > http://www.all2un1.com/Chat/index.htm > > There are several other variants to get speech with mirc like the "tIRC" > project" or a spin-off of mircspeech that used the scripts from mircspeech > to create a self-voicing (independent of jaws) solution with mirc and ms > agent) or a project called "Listen2" that predates MS agent and got mirc > talking just by using its native scripting capabilities and the Monolog > tts engine. "listen2" requires an older mirc executable and is very hard > to find these days. > > If any of the above sounds like it might be what you are looking for, I'd > be happy to try and give you further information. If, however, there is a > talking mIRc variant out there that I have not heard about, I in turn > would appreciate furhter information. > > Cheers, > > Doris > > > > > At 01:16 PM 10/5/2005 +0100, you wrote: >>hi guys, anyone know anything about the Mirc with speech program. Any help >>with setting up and configuring the software would be great. 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