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From: jkh@MEEPMEEP.PCS.COM (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Why can't the Amiga learn to speak?
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Date: 22 May 91 18:02:57 GMT
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(Apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan for the subject line).

I know about the default speach driver - it bites.  Remember
something called "Smooth talker" for the MAC?  Now that was
an interesting example of how you can break the sounds-like-a-votrax
trend in speech synthesis (it had the most amusingly lilting
voice - sounded almost irish!).

Has someone tried using digitized phonemes along with their own
algorhythm for converting english text?  It seems really odd
that with the Amiga's digital sound capabilities no one has
seen fit to do a decent voice.

If someone hasn't done this, and isn't working on it, then I'm
game ("You are?!? Blam! Blam!")

					Jordan