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From: ewilts@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Why can't the Amiga learn to speak?
Message-ID: <1991May23.094526.8427@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>
Date: 23 May 91 15:45:26 GMT
References: <m0jfxao-0003IUC@meepmeep.pcs.com>
Organization: BC Systems Corporation, Victoria, B.C.
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In article <m0jfxao-0003IUC@meepmeep.pcs.com>, jkh@MEEPMEEP.PCS.COM (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 					Jordan

Look on AB20 for an archive called TALK.LZH.  It replaced the phonemes with
some new ones.  I haven't played with it, but it looks interesting.

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