About Truespeech
Truespeech is a special WAV (Windows sound file) format that is designed to make voice-grade files of reasonable size so that you can download them with a modem. We have saved each of our talks in Truespeech format so that you can download them and listen to them. If you are using Internet Explorer 3.0 or later, or Netscape 3.0 or later, you should have Truespeech format built in as a streaming audio format.
Truespeech is built into Windows 95. You can also download special Truespeech players that also support streaming audio (a file you can listen to while it is downloading). You will need the Truespeech player if you are on a MacIntosh or running under Windows 3.1. The instructions for installing it as an add-in come with the download. The automated install doesn't seem to work.
With Windows 95, after the file has downloaded, you can generally right-click the mouse to save the audio file. Then you can replay the file with Windows Sound Recorder (or click on the file with Windows Explorer or by going thru 'My Computer').
You can also email the sound file to anyone with Windows 95, or the TrueSpeech add-in. (Be sure to get permission first, some people won't like receiving a file that may take ten minutes to download over a modem!) Or just send them the web page address http://websyte.com/unity/talks and let them download it themselves.
Talks under 20 minutes long will normally fit on a 1.44 floppy. Just copy the wav file to the floppy, hand it or mail it to your friend who has Windows 95 and sound, and have them click on the file with Windows Explorer! Make five copies and become an evangelist!
A 25-minute talk takes less than 2 MB. That means that on the modern 2 GB or larger drive, you could store over 1 thousand talks.