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- From: candyman@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: Ascii to sound
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.213556.2105@vax1.mankato.msus.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 03:35:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug8.063909.24890@ctr.columbia.edu> <1992Aug12.154427.22158@public.sub.org> <80164@bcsaic.boeing.com>
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- Organization: Mankato State University
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- In article <80164@bcsaic.boeing.com>, gwe3409@bcsaic.boeing.com (Gerald Edgar) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug12.154427.22158@public.sub.org> peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:
- >>raum@isoa3.ba.ttu.edu (Raum Pattikonda) writes:
- >>
- >>>I would like to know if there is any software which could play the sound from an ascii file.
- >>>One of my friends is a blind person and this kind of software would be of great use to him.
- >>
- > I remember that there was software in the public domain that took english
- > text and from a set of rules output phonomes to have a speach synthesizer
- > talk. This was about 7 years ago when I had an S-100 (Pre IBM-PC). The
- > other aspect of this software that I remember is that I think was developed
- > by the U.S. Navy (but the last might be wrong). Does this ring any bells
- > for any one to help this guy (?) out.
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