Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!bucket!rickb
From: rickb@bucket.UUCP (Rick Bensene)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Votrax Vocabulary
Keywords: Votrax SC-01 Vocabulary Phoneme
Message-ID: <1052@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 04:54:55 GMT
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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I'm looking for a vocabulary of English words for the Votrax SC-01
speech synthesizer chip.  I've been told that such vocabularies exist,
and I'm hoping that someone out there has a copy of such sitting around
in machine readable form somewhere.  I'm not very good at constructing
reasonable sounding phoneme streams 'by ear', and it takes a considerable
amount of time and fine tuning to get the words to sound at all
aesthetically correct, even considering the fact that the SC-01 is
fairly old technology and even at it's best, the speech isn't tremendously
lifelike.  Hopefully I can save quite a bit of time on my application
by being able to rely on someone else who spent the time to devise a good
vocabulary for the chip.

Failing that, maybe someone has a good set of 'rules' which can be used
to get reasonable speech quality from ASCII text.  I saw some such rules
in an article in a long-since forgotten publication (maybe BYTE?) a number
of years ago, but haven't been able to find any reference to it in my
recent searching.

Any help or information that could be provided will be very much
appreciated.

Thank you,

Rick Bensene        Tektronix, Inc.  PO Box 3500 C1-970    Vancouver, WA  98668 
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Rick Bensene        Tektronix, Inc.  PO Box 3500 C1-970    Vancouver, WA  98668 
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