Off Topic, but **Fantastic News** for us Infocom gamers!

Hello my fellow adventurers,
 

Believe it or not, to us, who are the old intrepid adventurers via the old 
Infocom days, well, those days are now back!  I now have a link to a website 
where some great gentleman, who is now my newest best friend, fixed the 
problems with the WinFrotz 2002, and now has it with, Ta Da, speech capability 
witch works!  Yeah!  The webmaster's name is Scott, and he is looking for 
people, like us, who would give him some feedback regarding, "tweaks" he has to 
make to remove all the bugs for people with visual disabilities.  There is an 
E-mail address for him on one of those pages.  

 

When you have installed the WinFrotz, then go to http://www.latz.org, and look 
for a few of the games to download and play.  

 

 

This is the step-by-step procedure to install Winfrotz TTS on your system:

 

1/ Go to

http://www.binaryrevelations.com/talkback/downloads.shtml

And

Download the file linked under "WinFrotz TTS 2002"

 

2/ this will result in a ZIP file called WinFrotzTTS2002_setup.zip on your

hard disk. Unpack this ZIP archive, which contains the setup program called

WinFrotzTTS2002_setup.exe. Launch that .exe and install the program

 

3/ Launch WinFrotz TTS (located at Start - Programs - WinfrotzTTS -

WinfrotzTTS). Attention: right at startup, the program will show a file

dialog in which you have to choose the story file you want to play. For

example, choose a Z code game you downloaded at latz.org. I think that there

is no audible indication of this dialog, and it is required to pick a game

at the beginning, otherwise Winfrotz will not start.

 

4/ Once you selected a story file, Winfrotz will open that particular story

and start the talking. It will read all the output created by the game, but

Not you're input.

 

5/ If Winfrotz does not work at all or does not talk, you will have to

install the Speech kit. You can find it at

http://www.binaryrevelations.com/talkback/downloads.shtml

under the link

called "English TTS package I put together from the Speech SDK". The

download will create a ZIP archive called CoreTTS.zip on your hard disk. As

before, unpacking the archive will result in an executable setup file called

CoreTTS.msi. Even though it does not have an .exe extension, you can launch

CoreTTS.msi like a regular program. Doing so will result in the speech SDK

being installed onto your computer.

 

6/ After completing step 5/, launch WinfrotzTTS again, select a story file,

and enjoy the text to speech.

 

Hope to see you all underneath the old white house!  

 

Best Wishes-

 

Beto Escobar III

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