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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: C= : Where's the Speech?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.193541.27793@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 19:35:41 GMT
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- In <Bz09KH.HDp@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- > Why would a DSP be necessary for something as simple as speech synthesis?
-
- It isn't necessary. But it requires real time processing and a lot of CPU
- time which is _better_ handled by a DSP.
-
- >You can get good speech synthesis on from a C-64, which uses a 1Mhz 8-bit
- >6502. The Apple IIe also had speech capability in software from the same
- >software package, although the quality wasn't quite as good. A DSP would be
- >necessary for good speech recognition, but any computer with a sound chip can
- >do speech synthesis.
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- The C64 needed to turn off the display to get the speech output right.
- The narrator.device eats 60% of the CPU time on an A500.
-
- I don't think that this situation is optimal for multimedia applications.
-
- And many people complained that even the Amiga speech capabilities were
- not good enough. There is a nice software library for the AT&T chip that
- includes better speech synthesis. I hope it will be available for the
- C= DSP card as well.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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