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From: barrylev@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Voice Recognition Software for the SB
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:25:29 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town

Hi all

I'm looking for voice recognition software for the Sound Blaster card.  Please
point out a FTP site or send via mail.  If you have voice recognition software
for any other card, give me a shout too.

Thanx.

Cheers,
Barry.
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From: chiac@ee.ubc.ca (chia-tung chen)
Subject: Re: GRAVIS ULTRASOUND has shipped to Canada -> ships to US in two weeks
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:12:04 GMT

I think I can confirm this news. I am in Vancouver, and just phoned 
Software Alley in Vancouver today. They told me the shipment will be in
tomorrow morning for it was delayed by several hours on Friday. (Gee. I
think I'd better sleep outside the store tonight.) They said they have
only ordered 50 cards (!?# I guess they are not aware how hot this card
has been talked about.), but I made sure my name is on their list so I
am guaranteed one card out of that first shipment. 

I feel privileged that people in Vancouver get to have the sound card
earlier than others, but then I guess afterall, Gravis is a Vancouver
based company.

We will be willing to share the first hand experience as soon as we have
the card. (hopefully this time is for real.)

				chia-tung chen
				chiac@ee.ubc.ca

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From: ys@wam.umd.edu ()
Subject: Re: NO JOKE- GRAVIS ships tomorrow (10/2) to Canada 
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:15:40 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.234625.10098@novell.com> dougb@novell.com (Doug Barlow) writes:
>I know just what you thought when you read the Subject line of my message,
>you thought "yeah, right".  Here's the story:
>----------
>
>Well,  I just got off the phone with Gravis and the secretary said 
>"it's day-to-day".  No suprises there. 
>
>  So, she transfered me to someone "that could tell me the details".  This
>was a different guy than I usually get.   He asked me where I was calling
>from.  I told him the US.  He said that they will ship to Canada starting
>tomorrow and that the US should get them by Wednesday.  Electronic Arts
>should have them by Friday (10/9).  Also, there should appear a press
>release sometime tomorrow.
>
>  I about fell off my chair.  He said that all the software was done with
>testing and that they were stuffing boxes right now.  I was so stunned
>that I didn't ask him anything else.
>
>So, it looks like "any-day-now" will be tomorrow, October 2.
>
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>            The opinions expressed above are solely my own and
>	    do not in any way represent the opinions of Novell, Inc.
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Where have we all heard this story before... I have at least heard something
like this a dozen times or so... and of course, no name is mentioned as to
who actually said it will be released tomorrow... though I'm not saying this
guy made the whole thing up, which would be a rather presumptuous assumption,
all I can say is that I won't believe this stuff about **release tomorrow**
until I see one product myself in person... just my opinion...

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From: ismith@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Chris Smith)
Subject: Re: PAS+
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:49:46 GMT

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From: daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Ultrasound support/Accolade
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:48:14 GMT
Distribution: world,local

In article <29SEP199214291675@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu>, tswanson@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu (QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES.) writes:
> Just got a flyer from Accolade on Star Control II (due out this week I
> think) and it specifically mentioned supporting the Ultrasound, which I
> took as a good sign.  Says the game takes full advantage of "CD quality
> sound" (the quotes are their's).  I think they are saying that the game has
> a digital soundtrack for both music and effects.

Just as a point of interest, someone forwarded to the net (about 6-10 months
ago) a request from the Star Control II designer (Paul Reiche III, I believe) 
asking computer musicians to submit their original .mod file creations for 
possible inclusion in StarCon II.  This fits well with the fact that the 
Ultrasound is especially well suited for playback of .mods.....

-Bryon
From: kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Wow 2 [0/2]
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:44:49 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

Wow 2 is a pretty killer mod player that uses all sorts of cool graphics
(equalizers, oscilloscopes, etc)
use the arrows and return to move the screens.  It's only a demo though,
so it has test version or something written across the screen, but it's fully
working.
 - Kirk
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From: mscott@charm.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Mark Scott)
Subject: EMM386 & SB (was: DR DOS 6.0 & SB bundled software)
Keywords: SB DR DOS 6.0 SoundBlaster soundblaster basic emm386
Reply-To: mscott@urbana.mcd.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 14:32:16 GMT

In article <1992Sep22.142246.24032@urbana.mcd.mot.com>, mscott@charm.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Mark Scott) writes:
|> -- 
|> 
|> I just bought the SoundBlaster (basic) vesion 1.5 and am using DR DOS 6.0.
|> The SoundBlaster works fine when run through the "test-sbc.exe" & works
|> with Falcon 3.0, Commander Keen & etc, but, when I try to use the
|> SoundBlaster provided software (ie: "fmorgan" or "parrot") I get an error
|> something like:
|> 
|> BLASTER variable incomplete or not set.
|> 
|> 
|> I do have the SOUND & BLASTER variables set correctly in my autoexec.bat!
|> I am also using a total "default" setup. I'm figuring that their software 
|> is not handling DR DOS 6.0 correctly.
|> 
|> Does anyone else have any ideas?
|> 
|> thanks
|> _________________________________________________________________________
|> Mark Scott			| 
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I found  out that it was my emm386.sys driver messing it up. If I disable
it, they work fine. My question is now, how do I enable emm386.sys & get
the SoundBlaster software to work too?

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From: I7110503@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Peter Jonas)
Subject: PAS-16: Problem with german keyboard
Organization: Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:08:47 GMT

I am using the Media Vision PAS-16 and I have a problem changing the
volume with the Alt-Str-U/D keys as described in the manual. It doesn't
work with the german keyboard driver. If I erase the line "keyb GR..."
from the autoexec.bat (using the standard key layout) it works.
 
Any ideas ? Are there other keys with the german keyboard I could use
to change the volume ? BTW, although it is possible to toggle the keyboard
layout by Alt-Str-F1/F2 this seems to has no effect for the volume keys.
Is there a german version of PAS-16 ?
 
Thank you for help.
 
Peter Jonas (i7110503@dbstu1.bitnet)
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From: cwvernon@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Colin Vernon)
Subject: Re: Soundcard most supported by games?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:08:08 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.163015.22847@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (OtakuRoach) writes:
>
>I didn't see a FAQ, here but I did see a useful listing of cards available.
>Thanks to whoever wrote it.  So, here's the question:
>
>	Which soundcard is supported the most for MS-DOS games?
>

It would have to be the original Sound Blaster, easy.  You will probably be
able to find it for less than $100 if you look hard enough.

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From: u910826@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Louis        siuoL)
Subject: ModPlay + SBPro
Summary: ModPlay + SBPro
Keywords: ModPlay + SBPro
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:33:16 GMT

I think I saw a patch for MP to get it to work with a sbp in stereo, does anyone have it ?

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From: murphy@water1.eos.uoguelph.ca (Jim Murphy)
Subject: help request for digital sound project
Organization: University of Guelph
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 18:59:48 GMT
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Hello,
        Let me begin by telling you that I am new to the area of digital
sound and would appreciate any assistance that can be given.

        The project which brings me to digital sound is a very
large collection of recorded lectures which I would like to
transfer to a storage media more permanent media than audio tape.
One though that I had was to transfer them to a CD. I
figured that I could sample at a fairly low rate, since the tapes
are mostly of speaking, without losing sound quality. From the
quick look at sound boards available for pc's it looks as if they
could be used to sample the sound and then have the sample file
placed on a CD subsequently. The use of a WORM for writing to the CD
would be required. Does this arrangement seem reasonable?

     If this would be reasonable, could you suggest a source for
information on file formats, and digital processing that would help
me prepare for such a project. Also, any suggestions on filtering which
might be required or other traps I might face.

     Thanks for your time and any suggestions which you might have.

Steve Huddle
University of Guelph
Guelph Ontario Canada
email: huddle@net2.eos.uoguelph.ca

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From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Subject: Gravis Ultrasound............
Organization: Universite de Moncton
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:40:42 GMT

I have to do it.  I'm tired of waiting....

           
 
      








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From: joe@erix.ericsson.se (Joe Armstrong)
Subject: Help: Sound blaster text to speech software
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:47:21 GMT

	How can I make the soundblaster talk?. 

	I want something like SBTALKER - does anybody know how SBTALKER works?
Having analysed the text for phonemes does if splice together waveforms
representing these phonemes to the SB or does it send a sequence of phonemes
to the card?.


	I'd like to be able to werite the text->phoneme part myself
but having generated a list of phonemes how can I get these "played"

	- Joe
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From: davecole@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Cole)
Subject: Re: PAS-16 - Best deal in Madison
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:35:30 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.174754.4740@nuscc.nus.sg> med40003@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN WEE MENG) writes:
>Hi people.
>
>I have relatives returning from Madison in 2 weeks and thought of
>getting them to bring a PAS16 back with them.
>
>Could anybody out there help me with:
>
>1.  The best price for a PAS16.  ComputAbility in the Computer Shopper
>    is offering it at $225 (the August issue).
>
>2.  If there's a cheaper deal by retail in a shop in Madison, could I
>    have the address/tel no.?
>
>Thanks for the assistance.  I don't know for sure if I can receive mail
>at the above address so I'll be checking this thread for any info which
>you all can provide me.  

Best Buy Company, an electronics and appliance store chain in the MidWest
 has it advertised for $199.  Your relatives will
have to pay sales tax, which I believe is 5% in Wisconsin.  But they will not
have to pay shipping.   Other mail order places have it for around $199.
Don't know how long the Best Buy price is good, but they have stores in
 Wisconsin, probably including Madison.

Cheers,

Dave Cole
From: kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Sorry about the uuencodes
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:15:37 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

O.k, I'm sorry I uuencoded and posted that stuff here, but alot of people
where asking me for it and I figured if I put it here, they could all get it.
As for descriptions, I have no idea, I got the stuff a while ago and it
said source code, I looked at it (and not being a programmer) thought
"wow, I'll give it to my programmer friend" and just held onto the files anyway.
Someone who uudecoded it and knows what to do with it please post here with
what it's all about.

Again, sorry.
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From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: JukeBox for Window3.1
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:31:06 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <1992Oct5.134439.15654@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> benny@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Kaidi Weng) writes:
>
>OK netters, I just bought a SBPro and installed the Jukebox into windows3.1
>The problem is that I can only play the midi file that come with the card,
>but not the .mid files that I have downloaded through anonymous ftp site.
>I can play those files with playmidi.exe in DOS environment.  Did I do
>something wrong or just because the Jukebox is kind of sux?  ;)

The windows jukebox works fine with my collection of MIDI files.

Davei
From: saucc00@DMI.USherb.CA (Dudy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: .AU to .VOC
Date: 4 Oct 92 21:30:18 GMT
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke departement Math-Info


The subject says it all,  somebody knows if it is possible?

C.



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From: sus@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Holger Suska)
Subject: Soundblaster Pro3
Organization: Communication Networks
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 16:58:41 GMT

Hey guys,

in Germany you can get an english Soundblaster Pro3 much cheaper than
a german one.
I don't know, whether the hardware of the two cards is the same.

Please answer soon!
               Bleibt sauber  
                     HOLGER
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From: ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com (Ross Erickson)
Subject: Re: THE GRAVIS ULTRASOUND
Reply-To: ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:55:11 GMT

>From what I am reading, the Gravis Ultrasound is like a Sound Blaster
>Stereo Sound Card, but if you want the SCSI interface (is it true SCSI
>or like the SB's) you have to buy an add-on board, if you want 16 bit,
>you have to buy an add-on board.  If this is the case, give me a break,
>I will stick to me PAS 16.  For the price, it does the job plus more.

C'mon.  Let's be honest.  How many current PAS-16 owners are
daisy-chaining a bunch of SCSI devices to their sound card?  Precious
few, I bet.  I think this "SCSI-on-a-soundcard" is overblown marketing
hype.  People want a sound card, not a disk controller.  And then,
Terry, check your facts first.  The Ultrasound can play back 16-bit
sound files all day long.  So, it needs a daughtercard to record
16-bit.  Big deal.  Again, marketing fluff.  How many really need to
record at 44.1KHz??  Precious few.  Why?  DISK SPACE!!  The standard
board for under 200 bucks (well under, from what I know) will keep
95% of the people completely satisfied.  The biggest advantage the
Ultrasound board has over any PAS product is the generation of sound
based on wave-table synthesis instead of FM.  FM has gotta go.  To sum
it up, Gravis simply sounds better.
>
>I noticed on advertisements that Gravis has handed out to dealers, that
>they will not compare their card to a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 bit?

Read on the net here.  It's plain and simple.  The PAS-16 is an
inferior card and they want more money for it.  Stop selling.
>                    

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From: vernon@iadpsa.safe.ia.gov ( Mark Vernon - DSB )
Subject: Re: Info on various cards
Organization: Iowa Department of Public Safety
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:57:38 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.152617.23059@news.iastate.edu> tarjan@iastate.edu (Scot 'ONE T!' Kight) writes:
>In article <1992Oct3.201108.21282@zooid.guild.org> Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>>
>>Can someone post/ mail me in a private message a comparison chart that
>>compares all the current cards available (PAS-16, Gravis Ultrasound,
>>Adlib Gold, Multisound, Sound Blaster & Sound Blaster 16, etc.). I don't
>>know if this is covered in the FAQs, speaking of that, can someone repost
>>the FAQ for this conference. I saw once a post that compared the PAS-16 to
>>other cards along with technical specs. I am looking for exactly that, so
>>if anyone has those text file, please post them. Many thanks in advance.
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>Mark Kovarski
>>E-Mail: kovarski@zooid.guild.org
>
>I would also greatly appreciate that.. 
>thanks
>tarjan@iastate.edu
>
 Count me in on that one to - please (whimper whimper beg beg)
 thanks - Mark Vernon

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From: davecole@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Cole)
Subject: Re: List of Soundcards (Gravis and Ensoniq)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:16:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.012704.26857@cc.umontreal.ca> dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Dion Francois) writes:
>In article <1992Sep24.114848.5469@news.acns.nwu.edu> davecole@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Cole) writes:
>>This would be good news.  I had heard long ago that Ensoniq had a chipset for
>>sale for building sound cards (as Emu sells and Turtle Beach uses in the
>>multisound).  I also heard (not in print) that Ensoniq sold sound chips to
>>Apple, and that Ensoniq chips were to be used by Gravis.  The last seems now
>>to be clearly false.  
>
>Where did you get that info? the specs are exactly the same between the DOC II
>chip and the Gravis!! (except a lower S/N ratio which has nothing to do with
>the DOC II chip but with the filters). Dynamic range 96 dB ( of course since
>it is 16 bit), 32 channels etc....


I haven't seen specs on the DOC II chip (that I remember).  After I heard that
Gravis was to use the Ensoniq chip, I saw press releases saying they were
using their own chip, which I believe they called "Michaelangelo".  I also
saw something about them offering to license their chip to others.  So I
assumed they had switched to their own chip, although I will admit to being
surprised (it is a big jump from making joysticks to designing sound chips).  
    
There is a list of MPC soundcards in the PC Week I got today.  It includes
Gravis and the RTM/Omnis Audio Master.  The latter is reported as using the
DOC II chip.  The Gravis is reported as using a "GF1" chip.
So I have seen nothing that indicates Gravis is using the Ensoniq chip as
originally reported, various things that suggest otherwise, but in a world in
which the same product is given different names by different (or even the
same) manufacturers, nothing proves that they aren't using Ensoniq chips.

Perhaps Gravis is using a proprietary modified version of the DOC II??

I'd be interested in hearing more from anybody familiar with which cards use
which chips (and I'd like to see the DOC II specs).

Cheers,


Dave Cole
From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Microsoft "Foghorn" card availability?
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:36:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: smsc.1992Oct6.203645.7962
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA

Does anyone out there have any information on when the new
Microsoft sound card will be available?  Is it already
shipping?
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