I did correctly remember how to access the built-in phrases in the Extended BASIC cart, however, I don’t believe I remember them all, so here’s a sample of three of them. The last word you’ll hear isn’t a built-in phrase, it’s the word uh-oh, U, H, O, H for clarity. You enter it uhoh, without the dash.
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Okay then.
No.
Also, Sorry, but I have another question. Would there be another screen reader option to use with program? I*with this program? I put a star beside that because I made a spelling error.
Oh no, that sounds very bad.
It was slow to respond and would read unimportant things on the screen so it slowed down even more.
How was it clunkey?
It wasn’t too hard to set up but mighty clunky it was.
Man that sounds cool. But as long as that wasn’t too hard to set up the screen reader.
No. There was a primitive screen reader added and it can’t be changed either. I mostly worked without the screen reader as that is what I was used to when I had the real Texas Instruments TI99/4A computer. When the Terminal Emulator 2 cartridge was plugged in it sounded different than when the Extended BASIC one was in. There was also a synthesizer box that needed to be plugged into the right side of the computer for both cartridges to be able to speak.
Okay. Also, could you change the tts voice on that program?
I don’t think so. The emulator was built before Windows 11 and was a long-running project. The history was quite fascinating to read.
I wonder if running windows 11 is a requirement?
Me too.
Well, I am running Windows 11.
I don’t remember where to get the emulator, and I also didn’t ever learn how to save to disk, so I couldn’t ever save my programs.
I don’t remember the system requirements but I suppose your computer would run such an emulator. Without prior knowledge of how to write programs it wouldn’t be all that useful for ya.
Okay. It still sounds like a cool program. Would my computer be comptible with it? If I downloaded it? I ment compatable.
Not at all. BASIC, at least the versions I dealt with, have line numbers and probably very simple structure compared with other programming languages.
Oh, okay. Is it the same as python?
Nah, just BASIC, and Texas Instrument’s version of that programming language.
I like that. It’s almost like you are programing Python to speek.
Sounds okay for its time.
I see…
Yes, they put a lot of work into the built-in phrases and it shows. In the Extended Basic cart, one can make it speak smoothly, but it’s very hard and time consuming. One must put every other word into a string variable and use the call spget command to put the phonemes necessary for the words between into other string variables. What I used to do was to put every other word in constants, or in quotes. Still, the speech isn’t as natural as the built-in phrases are.
Sounds way more natural.