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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: C= : Where's the Speech?
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:36:27 GMT
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- In <Bz48IL.2su@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- > Then why has Commodore removed the speech capability completely from
- >AmigaOS 2.1 and AmigaOS 3.0? The OS additions to support the DSP are not
- >planned until AmigaOS 3.1. Logically, if routines were planned to support
- >speech with both a DSP and the standard hardware, they would not have changed
- >anything with respect to the existing routines until AmigaOS 3.1. That they
- >removed it sooner seems to support the idea that from now on speech will only
- >be supported with a DSP.
-
- No, it only says that C= didn't want to pay longer for software licenses
- that they aren't going to need in the near future.
-
- > In other words, the speech is good enough already that I just don't see all
- >that much room for improvement. You can install an array of DSPs or even an
- >array of Crays all dedicated to doing speech synthesis, and the speech would
- >not be improved all that much.
-
- Wrong.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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