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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
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Subject: Re: why can't the Amiga talk properly
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Date: 29 Apr 91 23:29:24 GMT
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Before summer vacation last year, I promised I'd put the 'talk' program
up on ab20.  I've had horrendous luck uploading to my ultrix account,
but I think I've figured out what's wrong.  I'll archive the 'talk'
binaries and phonemes and put them up soon.  I promise.

'Talk' was written by one John Sherling, and allows you to use your own
phonemes in conjunction with the translator.device.  It sounds pretty
cool, but has about the same functionality as the built-in speech (if
not a bit less, because you have to use the 'talk' binary, and the
loading time is a bit long for all the phonemes).  It's worth a listen,
though, because it is so much different from the built-in device.

A big plus, though; if I recall, the source is distributable.  Hack away.

Another plea:  isn't there any way to rewrite the translator.device to
support foreign phonemes?

Peace,
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