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1988-11-15
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I enjoy using the speech synthesis capabilities of the Amiga for a
variety of purposes. But I hate the Say command. The damn
translator.library does such a poor job of translating text to speech.
Using AmigaBASIC or C, I can do a pretty good job using the Arpabet
phoneme code; but in my script files, all I had was the Say command.
Enter utter. Utter deals with the narrator device only, so it is up
to the user to come up with a valid string of phonemes. But the level of
control is greatly enhanced using the Arpabet, so I have found it is
worth learning.
Example: utter "/HAY6Y DHEYRX."
This is similar to typing Say "Hi there." Any number of phoneme
strings (enclosed in quotes) may be supplied as arguments.
I hope you like my default values for Pitch, Rate, and Sample
Frequency. They sound good to me, but I suppose the sucker should be re-
written to accept arguments for these values. I'll leave it up to you.
-Rich Martin