DIGITALIZED SOUND ON PC?

[Brad Skrbec]

gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:

>zhou at brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes:


>>   I want to output some digitalized sound signal to the speaker. The key-
>>point I figured out is to control the volume of the speaker. While you
>>can use "sound" to control frequency, Turbo does not provide direct access
>>to the speaker. I searched throughout my DOS manual and could not find
>>a interrupt for speaker. Does anybody have any clue on how to access speaker?

>	If you are trying to output digitized sound from the internal speaker
>on a PC, good luck.  The speaker is a very minimal sort of device.  Its only
>feature is that it can beep at different frequencies.  It has no "voices" or
>anything of the sort.

I'm not an expert at digitized sound on the PC using Turbo (pascal, c,
c++ ?), but I beg to differ that it cannot be done at all.  If you
contact komatsu at uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu, you will find that he has done
exactly that (played back digitized sounds on the PC) in a program
called REMAC, which will play digitized sounds, created for the
Macintosh, on the PC.  Dave is the moderator of a sound list for REMAC,
which has over 15 meg of various sound files such as the Simpsons,
Star Trek characters, etc.  To be added to the sound list, just put
the phrase: ADD-ME: <your e-mail address> in your message to him.

If you can create sounds from the speaker at the right frequencies,
you can create "voices".  The output isn't "super stereophonic high
quality blah blah blah", but you'll be amazed at how good Robin
Williams saying "Good Morning, Vietnam!" sounds!

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