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From: me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: WB 1.4
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Date: 15 Jan 89 07:38:59 GMT
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In article <156@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>
>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.
>

From what I understand, such a device was already written, but excluded from
the kickstart for two reasons.

1) It was too big.  The ROM is full already.

2) It was too CPU intensive.  If you notice, the narrator already chokes when
   you have a hires 4-plane screen in front.

If you ask me, I'd like it in anyway, perhaps as a disk-based library.  We'll
see.

-Vince Lee