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From: wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: New SoundBlaster (was: Soundblaster code revisited)
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Date: 2 Sep 90 11:14:45 GMT
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tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood WA3VQJ) writes...

>I've been thinking about writing a program to speak usenet postings:
>(i.e. correctly translating all of the smiley faces and changing pitch
>whenever quoted text is seen, etc);  should keep me busy for years!

Sounds like a great idea.  Using the latest verison of the software (1.5) there
is a text to speech program provided.  You would only need a pre-processor to
catch the smileys etc and then ship the whole lot off to sbtalker.

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