Hi Paul,   
      
   On Sun 2011-Sep-04 17:11, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
    RW> As I said, I'm rather proud of it, gives us each the   
    RW> individual operating environment we need, gives me quick   
    RW> access to session data, and helps keep me on task.   
      
   PQ> Oh great, now you have me thinking of doing some canned voices in   
   PQ> WAVE format playing on my one and only DOS batch menu that I still   
   PQ> use, instead of visually scanning the options.  I've recently been   
   PQ> playing with a text to speech program in Win XP, using the MS 'Sam'   
   PQ> voice, and have had some great fun with answering machine messages.    
   PQ> :)   
      
   IT could sure work in the right applications.  At one time,   
   separate speech and sound cards of course, I had a little   
   command line .wav or .voc player.  I also had for studio use the complete   
   Warner Brothers sound effects library and a   
   couple of other sfx libraries.  I'd use it to play small   
   .wav files in the middle of some batches, i.e. when doing   
   scandisk and defrag as soon as the batch went through nuking temporary files,   
   *.bak files and the like just before we   
   started the scandisk defrag process you'd hear a .wav of a   
   toilet flush, etc.    Was a cute little gimmick, but could   
   have been useful for a few things.   
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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