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- From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: phonem dictionary
- Message-ID: <11SEP199200355634@vax2.concordia.ca>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 05:35:00 GMT
- References: <NAGENDRA.92Sep7222410@csa.bu.edu>
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- In article <NAGENDRA.92Sep7222410@csa.bu.edu>, nagendra@csa.bu.edu
- (nagendra mishr) writes...
- >does anyone have a program which talks what is typed?
- >
- >I say a program running on an Apple II at the science museum here in
- >Boston, but had never seen it before then.
- >
- >It basically speaks whatever you type.
-
- There were a few sound boards (add-on slot cards) which allowed speech
- synthesis on most Apple II's with the proper software running it. One example
- is Street Electronic's "Echo II" card.
-
- In addition you can even create speech synthesis without ANY extra hardware,
- using the stock 2-voice (1?) internal speaker of the Apple II! Using nothing
- more than software on a disk will allow it w/o a sound card. You'd be suprised
- as programs such as "SAM", gives some pretty impressive results. Although the
- synthesized voice is slightly scratchy, it's still quite audible and almost as
- clear as a hardware based synthesizers! To my knowledge, "SAM" is the only
- software-based (no hardware) synthesizer available for the Apple II. I have a
- 64k Apple ][+ and the "SAM" program works just fine off that system...
- (It includes a 2-3 minute speech demo and an editor which lets you type in
- letters, words and pharses to be spoken).
-
- >Nagendra
- >nagendra@csa.bu.edu
-
- Mitchell Spector
- spector@vax2.concordia.ca
-