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- From: jkatz@netcom.com (Joseph Katz)
- Subject: Re: Looking for SoftVoice (voice synthesis) software
- Message-ID: <!j6mt=d.jkatz@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 08:58:04 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <dillon.0kel@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <4545@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Sender: jkatz@netcom.com
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- In article <4545@rosie.NeXT.COM> bloschen@next.com (Brent Loschen) writes:
- >In article <dillon.0kel@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US
- >(Matthew Dillon) writes:
- >>
- >> We've been searching around for something roughly equivalent to the
- >> Amiga's narrator device for the NeXT. Essentially, something into
- >> which we can stuff plaintext (or phonemes) and which outputs a
- >> synthesized voice.
- >>
- >
-
- Since the Amiga's Text-to-Speech system is written in a combination of
- C and 68000 flavor assembler, porting it to the NeXT would be fairly
- straight forward. The only involved part would be re-writing the
- synthesis kernal to run on the 56000 (not necessary but nice). In
- fact, given the NeXT hardware, an even more sophisticated model could
- be run. I know these things because I am one of the authors of the Amiga's
- speech synthesizer. Anyone from NeXT care to drop me a line? :).
-
- --Joe Katz
- jkatz@netcom.com
-