Captain Nilsson
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 Posted: Thu 29 Dec, 2005 13:21 Post subject: Chapter 1: Downloads and installation |
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This is what you need to do before starting Polyglot for the first time:
Have a PC with Windows installed. Could be 98, ME, 2000 or XP. 2000 and XP are recommended. And install the latest service packs, patches, etc. The PC should have enough power, of course. Depends on the Windows version, but 500 MHz and 128 MB RAM should do just fine. (We have been running it with less.)
One or two functioning soundcards.
A number of soundfiles ("songs", "ids", "jingles", etc). They could be mp3-files or of any other format that Winamp supports, which are a lot. If you have some exotic format you can probably find plugins that support that format on the Winamp plugin section at www.winamp.com .
Download and install the following: (find the links on the Polyglot homepage)
A recent version of Winamp (5.1 or better).
VB6 runtimes. On XP and 2000 you probably have this already.
Microsoft SAPI4 control panel.
Microsoft US English voices, Mary, Mike and Sam for SAPI4.
These are the minimum installs that you have to do before installing and running the actual Polyglot software.
Other downloads that could be useful are (but you could install them later):
Lernout & Hauspie TTS engines in additional languages are now supported! That is, the L&H TTS3000 voices work fine, but do not use the American English L&H TruVoice. If you have the latter installed, uninstall it, and install or reinstall the Microsoft Mary, Mike and Sam TTS engine. (Note: you only have to install the TTS engines, not the Agent language components.) (free downloads) (~2-3MB each)
Additional language speech files from different vendors. They are not tested here. Here are a few examples: InfoVox, AT&T NaturalVoices.
TweakUI for Win98/ME/2k (free download) and for XP (free download). With this one you can easily disable the autoplay function for CD-audio and CD-ROM, so they don't start to play until you call upon them from the program.
Plugins for Winamp (free download) to suit your needs, such as line-in sampler, CD-reader for digital extraction, etc.
Webcast tools from www.oddsock.org . If you want to transmit on the internet with Shoutcast or Icecast, then download the standalone version of Oddcastv3 (free download).
Anyway, after you have the required stuff, download the polyglot installation file, which is a zip-file, which you can unzip in a folder of your choice.
Run the setup.exe file and follow the instructions.
Now you are ready to run Polyglot for the first time!
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