Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!caen!ox.com!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!113!Chris.Brown From: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Brown) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Glad to be here. Message-ID: <16763@bunker.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 91 17:53:13 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:163/113 - Alternet, Ottawa ON Lines: 10 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 12830 is it possible to train a speech synthesizer to recognize shorthand for terms? Are there speech synthesizer "macros". Is it oossible to train a speech synthesizer to learn that (V) means a hug for someone whose name starts with V? And that ((V)) means two hugs? -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!163!113!Chris.Brown Internet: Chris.Brown@f113.n163.z1.fidonet.org