VOC Utilities


[646SBI]
646SBI contains 646 SBI instrument files needed to convert Ad Lib ROL files to
Sound Blaster CMF files.

[ADJVOX]
AdjVox 1.0 (Winsor, Daniel; $0) adjusts the playback speed of VOC files.

[CDA]
Compressed Digital Audio (Krenek, Steve; $18) can compress VOC files by a
ratio of 4:1 using ADPCM. It can also decompress the compressed files.

[DIGPAK]
DigPak (The Audio Solution; $40-70) is a set of drivers that lets you play
digitized sounds on any sound board, as well as the PC's speaker. It offers
enhanced support for many games, such as Ultimate Baseball, Chessmaster 3000
and others.

[DPLAYVO]
DPlayVoc 1.1 (Montelo Consulting; $10) plays VOC files on the Disney Sound
Source.

[BLABBER]
Blaster Blabber (Maddox, Gary; $0) is a text file reader for the Sound Blaster
and the Smooth Talker speech synthesizer.

[BMASTER5]
Blaster Master 5.95 (Maddox, Gary; $30) is a tool kit for working with raw,
uncompressed Sound Blaster VOC files. You can blend two files into a single
sample; reverse playback and play back a file at approximately half speed. It
will also convert a VOC file into a self-playing EXE file. It also features
digital delay, volume control, hi-pass/lo-pass filter, sound editing, stereo
panning, support for Windows .WAV format, a sound graph, FFT-based graphic
equalizer, an Auto-Desk Animator/VOC file player for multi-media
presentations, a recording module, support for Sound Blaster Pro and Thunder
Board, support for Amiga IFF samples, and much more. Requires a 286 or better.

[IFF2VOC]
IFF2VOC 1.0 (Bachus, Kevin S.; $0) converts Amiga sound files to SoundBlaster
format.

[PLAYER]
Player 1.1 (Gary S. Tessler; $19) plays WAV and VOC files on a Sound Blaster
compatible card. Requires SB's CT-VOICE.DRV.

[SFXBLAST]
SoundFX-Blast (Silicon Shack, Ltd.; $45) is a powerful, graphical waveform
sound editor for the Sound Blaster card. Features include the ability to
modify and create sounds; mixing and oversampling; special effects such as
echo, filter, and waveform reversal; infinite zoom and vertical display scale
control; built-in sound generators with wide frequency range; adjustable pitch
control; mouse support; and a sound level meter. Requires 720k disk or better,
512k, and a Sound Blaster compatible card.

[SILLYST]
Silly String 1.11 (Sound Applications; $5) is a graphical sound show. It
translates sounds from the microphone on your Sound Blaster to a graphics
display.

[SNRC21]
Sonarc 2.1e (Speech Compression, reg. fee: $20) compresses and decompresses
audio files which are in WAV, VOC or even raw format.

[SPUTTER]
Sputter (Cousins, Adrienne; $25) is a set of programs that allow you to manage
and play back many different types of digitized sound files on a variety of
different devices. All conversions are handled automatically, regardless of
the type of device used to create the sound file. It will also play ROL files
on Ad Lib compatible devices and CMF files on the Sound Blaster. Sputter
allows you to attach digitized sound files to events on your PC such as
Program Execution, File access, Disk access, Alarm clock settings and
replacing the original beep sound. Support is provided for the PC internal
speaker, Speech Thing, Voice Master, Sound Master, Sound Blaster, AdLib Music
Card, Disney Sound Source and any other Digital to Analog Converter. Also
included is a complete text-to-speech package that provides interchangeable
voice files and complete user control over pronunciation and inflection. This
is a very comprehensive sound package, and includes enhanced support for
DESQview. A hard disk or high density floppy is required. (We have had reports
of the author of the program not responding.)

[SUN2VOC]
Sun2Voc 1.0 (Bachus, Kevin S.; $?) converts files from Sun audio (.au) file
format to Sound Blaster-compatible VOC format without the need for any
additional modifications to the file.

[VBLAST20]
Voice Blaster For DOS 2.0 (Millennium Software Products; $0) plays any
combination of CMF and VOC files from multiple drives and directories.
Features include the ability to record VOC files with unlimited length, select
input channels and filters on SB Pro and SB 16, loop mode, random play mode
options, SB Pro Volume Controls, and mouse support.

[VOCTHING]
VOC Thing 1.2 (Douglas, Melvin; $9) lets you record and play digitized .VOC
files on a Sound Blaster compatible card. You can create a playlist of up to
1000 files, save multiple sessions to disk, control the sample rate, record up
to 30 seconds, play .VOC files from a compressed .ZIP file, and much more.
Several sample sound files are included.

[WAVE_BS]
Wave-BS ("Brain Synchronization") creates user-specified VOC files to play on
a sound card which promise to synchronize your brain wave patterns into any
desired state.

[WURL]
Wurlitzer Jukebox Player (JP Photo Innovations; $25) is a VOC file player. It
allows you to enter a description for each file name.