Have you looked at http://real-votrax.no-ip.org/ they have a votrax hooked up, and yes it'll use your phonemes that speak generates. It just likes things to be upper case though. So.. hello !p ,h,e0,l,o0,o1,-1 works more like H E0 L O0 O1 PA1 I wonder if anyone's generated wav's for each of the phonemes, then you could hook up a line printer or something that'll read it as a pipe and just play the wav's as needed.. It is rough 1970's speech synthesis, but I had one of those Intellivoice things as a kid, so I kinda like it. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Longridge To: tuhs Sent: 10/13/14 8:57 AM Subject: [TUHS] Getting Unix v5 to talk Thanks to the efforts of Jonathan Gevaryahu I have managed to get the Unix v5 speak utility to compile and execute. All this was done using the simh emulator emulating a PDP-11/70. Jonathan managed extract enough of speak.c to reconstruct it to the point it could be compiled with v5 cc. I believe it was necessary to look at speak.o to accomplish this. Jonathan also states that there are more interesting things that could possibly be recovered from v6doc.tar.gz One can look at speak.c source here: http://www.maxhost.org/other/speak.c Now had we have speak compiled we can go a bit further: cat speak.v - | speak -v null generates speak.m from ascii file speak.v speak speak.m computer !p (prints out phonetics for working word) which outputs: ,k,a0,m,p,E2,U1,t,er,-1 ctrl-d exits Looking at speak.c we can see that it opens /dev/vs. Fortunately we have the file /usr/sys/dmr/vs.c to look at so this could be compiled into the kernel although I haven't done this as yet. speak.c looks like Unix v5 era code. My understanding is that Unix v5 appeared in June 1974 and the comments say 'Copyright 1974' so it seems plausible. I'm intrigued by the possibility of getting Unix v5 to talk. Mark _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs