Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!f.gp.cs.cmu.edu!mjw From: mjw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Questions Message-ID: <34@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 02:15:33 EST Article-I.D.: f.34 Posted: Thu Feb 5 02:15:33 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 11:45:30 EST References: <775@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 53 Keywords: Visual 550 emulator wanted, Caligari status?, memory expansion I have two questions for the people at commodore. 1) Can you provide a termcap entry for AMIGA terminal emulation in amigaterm, or is it not worth the effort. 2)The narrator device is very nasty. I had this neat idea, "I wonder if I can get this thing to speak french" I asked myself. So, I looked in the manual, and it talked about ipa and nice things like that. "Neat" I thought, "a piece of cake". Then I looked closely. What it provides is something called arpabet. Not only doesn't it provide the phones I need to generate French, it doesn't even provide those needed to speak (I.e RP). For example, it is not possible to get it to say 'pot'. It assumes that this word should be pronounced 'paat' (as in ), and there is nothing on God's green that you can do about it. I would like to suggest that the next release of intuition support a narrator device with a full set of IPA phones. This will make the usefulness of the machine in educational markets greater as it will be able to pronounce foreign languages. It will also mean that those of us who find other accents euphoneous will be able to have our machines speak them. -- ==================================================================== Michael.Witbrock@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu US Mail: Michael Witbrock Dept of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213-6890 USA Telephone : (412) 268 3621 [Office] (412) 681 3806 [Home] ======================================================== Be good, be kind, in whatever you say and do, and remember: keep cool till after school. (Ollie Olsen, TVNZ Kids Programme host). -- ==================================================================== Michael.Witbrock@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu US Mail: Michael Witbrock Dept of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA 15213-6890 USA Telephone : (412) 268 3621 [Office] (412) 681 3806 [Home] ======================================================== Be good, be kind, in whatever you say and do, and remember: keep cool till after school. (Ollie Olsen, TVNZ Kids Programme host).