The Polyglot Radio Jock

The Polyglot Radio Jock application was designed to be a radio automation software.
The program includes Text-To-Speech support (Microsoft SAPI4), that will allow you to program spoken comments, such as song and artist presentations, of already played songs as well as songs coming up. The synthesized voices, that can be mixed from several languages, can also give time and date in a natural fashion, tell jokes or any other custum message.
You can mix songs, jingles, ads, ids and spoken comments etc in many fashions, that you customize yourself to your own liking.
You can program thousands of songs to play in Automatic Mode, exactly the way you want, in the order you want. This can be done either in a general way, based on different attributes set for each song and for any user-defined timeslot, or you can make any number of play lists or "clocks" for any hour of the week, or a combination of both. Cross-fade/overlap times can be programmed generally or individually etc.
You can insert ads, jingles, ids, etc. at any given time and/or on a rotation basis. Ads will be forced to play even in Manual Mode, without interrupting the song that is playing, nor the DJ presentation.
A "song", "ad" etc. can be any sound file, in a huge variety of formats, such as mp3, mp2, mp1, wma, wav, cda, mid, mod, au, aiff, snd, ogg etc. The database supports ID3 tags, versions 1, 1.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4.
The user interface can be set to secure mode, that is, you can block the normal user from making any modifications to the configuration, or enter in the general Windows surrounding. The administrator can, in this case, enter with a password in order to make changes to the configuration or the Windows system.
You can manage various settings and database profiles, which you can save to and load from a disk drive or a floppy or other medium. This makes it easy to administrate the lists and settings remotely, with or without a network connection!
All movements can be logged to tab-limited text-files, which can be easily viewed in any spreadsheet application. You can also export the song-list to a tab-limited text-file for viewing in a spreadsheet application.
Supports two soundcards, one used for Public Address, and the other one for pre-listening and cueing. Written in Visual Basic 6 for ultra-high stability.
Requirements:
ï¿­ 1 or 2 soundcards. At least one of them (for public address) should be of good quality and converting by up-sampling rather than down-sampling. (The Sound Blaster Live soundcards fulfill this specification.) The other one (optional, for pre-listening) may be simpler, even an older one or on-board.
ï¿­ Processor 300 MHz or better (500 MHz recommended)
ï¿­ RAM 64 MB or better (128 MB recommended)
ï¿­ VB6 runtimes (included in 2000, XP)
ï¿­ Winamp 5.1 or better
For the speech support:
ï¿­ Microsoft Speech API 4 (SAPI4) (~800 KB exe), or
ï¿­ Microsoft Speech control panel (recommended) . (~900 KB exe)
ï¿­ Includes SAPI4, so you dont have to install both.
ï¿­ Microsoft US English voices, Mary, Mike and Sam for SAPI4 (~7 MB)
Other recommended downloads:
ï¿­ Lernout & Hauspie TTS engines in additional languages are 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.)
ï¿­ (~2-3MB each)
ï¿­ Additional language speech files from different vendors. They are not tested here. Here are a few examples: InfoVox or AT&T NaturalVoices