Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Amiga Speach (was Re: Complaints about Amiga OS 2.0) Keywords: speech 2.0 shell menu Message-ID: <1990Jun7.083800.26414@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 7 Jun 90 08:38:00 GMT References: <20526@snow-white.udel.EDU> <32420@auc.UUCP> Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 14 While we're wishing, a good specification of how the system works and how to modify it and tailorable sound source files (to allow one put in phonemes that don't occur in English) would vastly improve the odds of commercial products being developed around the Amiga's speech synthesis system, perhaps opening a whole new market area. Drilling kids learning English as a second language in spoken English would sell to a lot of inner city schools, for example. Anything existing or planned in this direction? Specifically, is there, for example, an IFF chunk for algebraically defined (or however one does this) phonemes? Kent, the man from xanth.