Dolphin Orpheus SAM Driver

This is the SAM Driver for Orpheus. SAM will find this driver using the stub driver located in the SAM folder. Do not copy this driver to SAM.


Features

Automatic detection of Orpheus
Supports several sound effects and pauses
All the Orpheus voice commands are available
Prompts are translatable
Provides a "raw" mode
Windows 95 and NT compatible


Restrictions

No exceptions dictionary


Raw mode

When text is sent to this driver in "raw" mode, no checking is done for character sets.

You can insert Orpheus commands in the text by entering @<p=n> where p is the parameter number and n is the new value. For example, to set the pitch to 100Hz you could enter @<1=100>.

The parameter numbers and their valid ranges are:

 0 - speed              10 to  700
 1 - pitch              50 to  500
 2 - prosody             0 to  100
 3 - word pause          0 to 1000
 4 - phrase pause        0 to 2000
 5 - voicing             0 to  100
 6 - speaker table       0 to    7
 7 - volume              0 to  100
 8 - balance          -100 to  100
 9 - language            * 
10 - Hypermode           0 or    1
11 - mark space ratio    0 to  100
12 - voice source        0 to    1

* This command takes language code numbers to switch language. For example @<9=44> would switch to UK English if it is installed.

In addition, @<0=0> will disable the voice block passed with a non-raw mode call, @<0=1> will enable processing of the voice block.

When you use raw mode, the voice block and spelling flag are  ignored. However, index marks should work in the same way. You cannot split a command between two append calls.

