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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: WB 1.4
Summary: Amiga Wish LIst
Message-ID: <156@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 16:37:05 GMT
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Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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What I would really like to see in wb1.4 or 1.5 is a decent voice for the
Amy. The synthetic voice Amy has now sux. it sounds like a cross 
between Arnold Swarzenegger and the Muppets Swedish Chef! The 'female'
voice is even worse! It sounds like a transvestite swedish chef.

The Amiga has enough potential power to have a really nice synthesized 
voice. There is even a public domain replacement for the voice called
better-voice (I think thats the name). The person who wrote it took
digital samples of his voice to make the phonemes. It needs a lot of 
work tho, the phonemes weren't recorded very well. 

Why doesn't Commodore-Amiga use this approach? It would yield a much
more natural sounding voice.  If they digitized a female voice for the
phoneme base, you could tune it down in pitch to a male voice, better
than you could tune up a male voice into a female one.

When ever I show off my Amiga to my friends, and I show them how I can
'make it talk', They always say:
"Oh Wow. That's neat..  er... what did it say?"

The Amy should be able to be as good as say, DECTALK, with a little
bit of work. 


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