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- From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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- Subject: Uploaded: saystring - a command line program for flexible voice alerts
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- Date: 24 Aug 92 01:17:06 GMT
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- I have uploaded a short command line porgram in C that provides flexible voice alerts,
- like reading out numbers.
-
- * This is essentially a program that plays concatenated sound files of words with
- * some special treatment for numbers. As such, it only can speak words that have
- * corresponding sound files. Numbers are spoken by concatenating digit sounds.
- * The program is very simple and low overhead, but should be quite usable for
- * applications that need only limited vocaburary. This has been written to
- * provide voice alerts for monitoring experimental parameters in a biology lab.
- * (Commands come from remote devices via rsh.)
- *
- * Usage examples:
- * saystring "temperature #39.4 degrees is too high"
- * saystring "our phone number is #6 #4 #2 _ #6 #4 #4 #0"
-
- It is a one-night hack and not a general text-to-speech thing, so don't expect
- too much of it. You have to prepare a set of sound files for all words you need.
-
- Look for file saystring.c on sonata.cc.purdue.edu or cs.orst.edu. It is currently
- in the submissions directory.
-
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- Izumi Ohzawa
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