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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics,comp.ai,comp.misc,comp.periphs,sci.lang,rec.games.video
Subject: Re: voice synthesizer package needed
Message-ID: <917@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 22:30:10 GMT
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Keywords: voice synthesizer request
Summary: If you don't already have the computer...


If you haven't already bought the control computer, the
Commodore-Amgia 500 might bear some investigation.  It goes for
about $US600 w/o monitor.  It has a built-in 880K 3.5 inch disk
drive.  It aslo has two 8-bit DACs.

The DACs can be controlled to output sound via a DMA channel under
CPU control.  The Amiga O/S comes with a utility program called
"say" that does text-to-speech conversion directly to the internal
DACs.  The quality of the speech is very good and the program has a
variety of tunable parameters to allow the user to optimize the
speech sound quality.  The Microsoft Basic interpreter that comes
with the system can also output speech via a "say" statement.  You
have your choice of using phonetics or using the text-to-speech
algorithm.

So, if you still need the computer, this speech synthesizer is
essentially free.

--Bill