Short Visual Basic Programs including Talking Graphing Calculator and Talking Text
These programs may not work well in some Windows Computers. Click here for a simpler, but better Talking Graphing Calculator that will work.
The following Talking programs likely work best in WindowsXP using a Screen resolution of 1024 by 768. I designed these programs on a Laptop, 15 inch screen, with WindowsXP, with the mentioned screen resolution and 32 bit color. In case speed is important -- 1 GHz Pentium III processor. The voices and musical instruments notes may vary somewhat from computer to computer. When you click on one of the following another web page will appear to give more complete description and instruction than in the table below (also included in the program information menu -- with the computer reading them to you, as an option) and download link. These are version 1 programs, and with feedback may be improved and expanded if wanted.
If you have problems with the Talking programs below you might want to download and install a wonderful Text Reader that is free for 30 days. The Talking programs below will then work:
For the Readplease program download, click:
http://www.readplease.com
| 1. | Talking Graphing Calculator | Many functions, in bases 2 to 66, enormous numbers manipulation, music played for any number, find groupings of digits in any number, graphing, etc. for any equation of function x, music played based on the equation, computer talking for all these in a choice from 11 voices which can be altered. Etc. |
| 2. | Talking Text | Will take any text, book, document, etc. and read it for you in one of a choice of 11 voices; paste or load any of these to listen to them spoken or listen to the equivalent music. Etc. |
| 3. | WhoWhatWhereWhy | A fun game of phrases for Who? What? Where? Why? to combine them in random ways. |
The following are slightly older Visual Basic 5.0 programs that you can download and play with. Some information is given in the menu of each program. Experiment with the program to find other things each can do. These programs will only run in Windows.
Download a program by clicking on the program link below and saving it
in your chosen directory on your computer. Downloading any of these programs will not place an icon on your main
window. You may want to do this yourself.
After downloading simply click on the .exe program to run it. It is always
a good idea
to run a virus check on any .exe program you download before running it.
Any of the programs may be improved and updated in the future and new ones added. Click on one of the following categories. See below the table for other important instructions.
If you are not using WindowsXP:
Some basic .ocx and .dll programs must be installed in your computer before
you can run any of the programs. If you have installed Microsoft Visual
Basic 5.0 (Microsoft Office may be alright??) you should have no problems.
You can install each .ocx and .dll program separately
using the following links in below.
By the Way these extra files are
useful to run all kinds of other programs from other sources as well.
(a) Check to see if you have the file msvbvm50.dll in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.
You can download this file from Microsoft by using the following URL and copy
them into C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q180/0/71.ASP
or download it from this web site.
(b) For a number of the programs you
must also download Comdlg32.ocx and richtx32.ocx
and xvoice.dll from this web site.
These must be copied into C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM of your computer.
If you are using WindowsXP these will likely be part of your system.