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Morac
07-23-2002, 10:03 PM
When I hear Robot Jones' voice I know I've heard it before from a software program I used to have installed on my machine from about 5 or 6 years ago, but I can't put my finger on it.

It was a text to speech reader that had a list of voices to choose from. It may have been Text Assist (http://www.textassist.com), but I'm not positive.

Anyone remember what it was called?
ButteredToast
07-24-2002, 07:47 AM
It sounds to me like a standard Mac/PC voice synthesizer. I believe Text Assist uses it on the PC to create its voice, along with many other programs using it as well.
a.k.a. Skarr~~
07-24-2002, 04:14 PM
It sounds a little bit like Josten's Story Book Maker.
Ed man
07-24-2002, 04:23 PM
It would be easy doing Robot Jones's voice for a flash movie! :D All I would need is a synthesizer!
DoubleL
07-24-2002, 08:35 PM
I downloaded this robot thing on kidnetic.com, sounds sort of like his voice, It's sort of dumb tho...
Keeper
07-25-2002, 04:46 AM
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Feslmogh
07-25-2002, 06:32 PM
Talkany (http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/downloadoftheday/story/0,24330,3391351,00.html) is close to it!
DoubleL
07-25-2002, 09:43 PM
There is nothing at that link.
zimbach
07-25-2002, 10:52 PM
It's a MacInTalk voice (included with Mac OS). I think Robot Jones uses the "Kathy" voice.
Keeper
07-26-2002, 03:36 AM
Eh, it's still SAM. It's the same SAM from the C64. The original Mac had it too. So did the Amiga. You can get it for the PC free from Microsoft too.

But nobody uses the phonetic language for it anymore, which actually is handy, because you don't have to worry about it screwing up pronunciations. For example, on the PC and Mac, the speech system is used by the flight simulator X-Plane for tower communications. But when you receive a report on the weather, it pronounces "wind" like the verb. If it still could use the phonetic writing instructions, you could have it say "wihnd" -- whereas the verb would be "waynd".
Feslmogh
07-26-2002, 08:35 AM
Originally posted by DoubleL
There is nothing at that link.

Link fixed!
Sharklady
07-26-2002, 03:09 PM
I think it sounds just like Stephen Hawking's 'voice.'
zimbach
07-26-2002, 06:35 PM
Every time there is a a video game sound effect on TV, whether it's the kids in a sitcom are playing their console, or in some of the Robot Jones promos, the same sound clip is used. They always use the sounds from the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man. Why? These are very distinctive sounds that can't be mistaken for any other game.