Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewse!cwpjr From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Why can't the Amiga learn to speak? Summary: MicroSoft Amiga Natural Speech Message-ID: <1991May23.184944.15070@cbnewse.att.com> Date: 23 May 91 18:49:44 GMT References: Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 33 In article , jkh@MEEPMEEP.PCS.COM (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > (Apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan for the subject line). > > 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 Microsoft had a contest where they said they'd fund some unique applications a few years back. I wrote a proposal to digitize foreign language phonems and phrases, and to produce a translation engine, where it would read ascii text in the foreign language. Natch I told them the Amiga was the best platform for this and that I wanted to do a CD-ROM version for ami. Seeing as how they were ) and still are ( trying to corner that market I doubt they even considered it. They did say no, tho. So I see this as CDTV application, with a smaller version for non CD ami's. I would buy this product. I would have built it for Microsoft but am glad I didn't. :^) Clyde -- #-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#--#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-##-Not even the smart cookies know how they will crumble - Wisom of the Cookies-##-Clyde W. Phillips Jr. FORTH plan Amiga Man Dead Fan Chicago Born GO BULLS!!!-##-South Shore Hyde Park NewTown Wicker Park Rogers Park Evanston I BEEN AROUND-##-Reach out to me at clyde@ihlpl.att.com or (708) 713-5365w or (708) 386-3147h-##-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#--#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#