hi there, you seem to be quite an expert! congratulations! I am actually a total novice. I am a friend of a lady who has ALS and I will go back to Europe in 10 days. I would like to leave having her voice recorded, so she stays able to comunicate also when the illness takes her voice away. We bought an apple laptop for her. Do you know if there would be any problem installing the InvTool program on the mac for her? would she do fine or is she better of with a conventional laptop. I haven't unpacked the thing in case I need to change it for another kind of laptop.
So far we tried recording voices, just with the film-recording program and that works well.
Any answer will be helpful. I need to hurry up if I wnat her to record as much as possible on the new laptop.
thanks for any reply,
Andres

Hi all,
I have a simple to answer question:
Is it possible to run the program InvTool on a mac (apple) laptop computer or is the program presenting any problems with mac?
thanks for any answer.
Andres

Hi , here are some links and info on the InVtool

[InvTool

Overview:

InvTool is a program that allows a person to capture his or her own voice for use in speech synthesis. Using InvTool, users record a carefully selected inventory of "sentences" (actually sentences, phrases, and isolated words) designed to cover almost all of the different combinations of speech sounds found in naturally occurring English. Once the person is finished recording as many of the sentences as he can, InvTool compiles the speech into a database that is used by InvTool’s sister program, ModelTalker. ModelTalker can then be used to synthesize sentences that sound like they were spoken by the original individual.

This document is an illustrated tutorial for how to use InvTool. We recommend that you read at least Sections 1-7 below before you begin any recording.



BUG: Currently, there is a minor bug in the InvTool program. Oftentimes, if you move the InvTool window, or if another window is moved over the InvTool window, the writing in the Performance Meter boxes will disappear. This can be alleviated by minimizing and then re-opening the InvTool window.

NOTE to users of older versions of InvTool: Versions of InvTool made available after March 4, 2002, use named inventory files and speech directories which it creates with the File->New menu. If you have already started recording a speech inventory with a version of InvTool downloaded before 3/4/2002, read this to convert your old inventory into the new format.



Updated July 20, 2002.



Contents:

1. Installation
2. Microphone Set-Up And Calibration
3. Creating A New Inventory File
4. How To Record Sentences
5. Listening To And Re-Recording Your Sentences
6. Stopping, Re-Starting, And Tracking Your Progress
7. General Recording Guidelines
8. Advanced Feature: Editing the Inventory
9. Advanced Features: The 'Settings' Menu
10. When You Are Finished Recording: Making The Synthetic Voice
11. Uploading your Recordings to the Speech Research Laboratory ]
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/InvTutor/index.htm



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more of the google results lists-
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...ol&btnG=Search

Modeltalker site- It seems to be for Windows , I haven't seen any mention of Mac for this.
http://www.modeltalker.com/


this has a listing of many programs and some for Mac
http://www.etriloquist.com/alslinks.html

http://www.joesalsadvocacy.com/pages/speech.htm#free

I'll place a copy this on to our ALS forum - they might have some better suggestions for you.