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  2. Received: from kingfisher.CS.Arizona.EDU (kingfisher.CS.Arizona.EDU [192.12.69.239])
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  7. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  8. Date: 24 Sep 1997 18:15:55 GMT
  9. From: kot@math.utk.edu (Mark Kot)
  10. Message-Id: <60blcr$2t0$1@gaia.ns.utk.edu>
  11. Organization: University of Tennessee
  12. Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
  13. Subject: Icon + Festival
  14. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  15. Status: RO
  16.  
  17. I recently downloaded the Festival Speech Synthesis System
  18. (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html) for unix.
  19. I found that Icon was the ideal language for controlling
  20. this speech synthesizer.  It took just a matter of minutes
  21. to write Icon programs that would produce useful text and
  22. pipe the output to festival.  Examples include a program
  23. to read off my appointments for any given day, another
  24. to read off the name and subject of new mail, and third
  25. to read off the day's forecast.  I was struck by the power
  26. of this combination and encourage others to try it.
  27.  
  28.