Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ingr!infonode!palmerc
From: palmerc@infonode.ingr.com (Chris Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Voice Synthesizer Phonemes
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.203908.27956@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 20:39:08 GMT
Reply-To: palmerc@infonode.UUCP (Chris Palmer)
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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I don't have access to my ridiculously inadaquate user's manuals that came
with my A1000 (they are at my parents house), so I have a question:

	Are the phoneme lists that the speech synthesizer uses
	documented in the User's Manuals?  

If not, where are they documented?  Does anyone has a list and description
of them?

I am trying to create an application that uses speech and the translator
library is inadequate and annoying.  I would like to tailor the inflection
and pronounciation in a more realistic way. 

Has anyone created a tool for that?  I was thinking about doing something
like a speech paint program.  A program that would allow you to input text
then assign it to different audio-ports, set the gender of the voice,
adjust all parameters with sliders, insert phonetic pronounciation to replace
the words that the translator has trouble with.  Oooohh, I can see it now,
Hamlet performed on an Amiga :-).
 
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