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From: pvl@houxh.UUCP
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Subject: Re: TI & Speech
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Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 13:33:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 21 13:33:40 1983
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  TI does, indeed, have a speech synthesizer which plugs into the TI 99/4a
console.  I believe that it goes for about $120, unless the rebate deal
is still running (I got mine "free" by buying 6 software packages and sending
the boxtops to TI...*really*).  The resulting speech is very good, but
you must have one of the cartridges which uses it.  A few games now use
the speech (PARSEC has a *female* voice), Extended BASIC gives you access
to a 300-word vocabulary, and the Terminal Emulator II attempts text-to-speech
(I don't have the TEII but I'm told that phonetic spelling produces fairly
decent speech).
  Good luck, Pete LaMaster  (201)949-0040  ihnp4!houxh!pvl