Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!att!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Digital Speech (was Re: CD sound ) Message-ID: <3444@corpane.UUCP> Date: 1 Nov 90 20:46:41 GMT References: <1990Oct24.030917.18454@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <693@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY Lines: 42 ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) writes: >In article sutela@polaris.utu.fi (Kari Sutela) writes: >>I'd say that hardcoding a language into a chip wouldn't be too wise. Please, >>keep in mind that there are other languages besides english (and a significant >>portion of Amiga sales comes from non-english-speaking countries). >Do phonems vary greatly from language to language? Hey this looks like a perfect place to step in and change the subject :-) Does any one out there have a list of the english phonemes they could send me? I think there are something like 42 or so of them. What I would like is a table that shows the phoneme mnemonics that the Amiga uses and an example word, like AE - cApe AH1 - cAt I2KS - kiCKS (these probably aren't even close as examples, they are just of the top of my head) Maybe someone from CBM would have this info handy? Basically what is going on is that I have found this program that somone wrote that uses his own digitized speech to replace the Amiga voice. It's a neat idea, but he did a lousy job of digitizing and I think it would be a nice to try to redigitize the phonemes better (maybe use a sexy female voice?). But the problem is that the phoneme files are so short that they don't make much sense when I listen to them separately, so I figure a list of what they are and an english word example would help me sort it out. Plus, I could get someone to say the example words, then digitize them and cut out the phonemes and save them to a file. Heck maybe if it works out, CBM could include it on the extras disk? Or we can start the Amiga Voice Replacement Project :-} -- John Sparks |D.I.S.K. Public Access Unix System| Multi-User Games, Email sparks@corpane.UUCP |PH: (502) 968-DISK 24Hrs/2400BPS | Usenet, Chatting, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|7 line Multi-User system. | Downloads & more. A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of----Ogden Nash