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From: doron@oboe.cs.cornell.edu (Leor Doron)
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Subject: Re: Text to Speech converter
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Date: 11 Feb 91 17:50:28 GMT
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The Jan. 28 issue of PC Week favorably reviews Monologue 2.0, $149 from
First Byte of Santa Ana, CA, (714) 432-1740.  Excerpts:

"...plays through an internal or auxiliary speaker.  The voice quality
is surprisingly coherent, especially on fast computers... can be
easily programmed into new applications or accessed from within
packages such as Lotus 1-2-3 or dBASE... runs as a TSR, requiring
between 140K and 225K bytes of RAM.  If expanded memory or XMS memory
is available, the program uses it, using only 45K bytes of base RAM."

Will allow you to mark any text on the screen and will speak it; will
work with Sound Blaster with esp. high quality; will NOT work under
Desqview or Windows due to timing considerations.

--Lee

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