Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: langz@asylum.sf.ca.us (Lang Zerner) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Area Codes --> Locations Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 89 03:26:06 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: The Great Escape, Inc Lines: 15 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 449, message 3 of 5 I know a number at Bellcore which lets you key an area code and exchange, then speaks the location name using what sounds like a DECtalk speech synthesiser. This is the same list which the BOCs use to determine call location for printing your bill, so it is kept very up to date. Because the location names are limited to a maximum number of characters in length, some of them are unpronounceable. The speech sysnthesiser spells these out. If you want the number, mail me and I'll send it to you. Be seeing you... Lang Zerner langz@asylum.sf.ca.us UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz ARPA:langz@athena.mit.edu "...and every morning we had to go and LICK the road clean with our TONGUES!"