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From: ajr@dsl.eng.cam.ac.uk (Tony Robinson)
Subject: Re: talker/reader wanted
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Glen Jerome Browning (gjb@Pan.utc.msstate.edu) writes:
> I am looking for a Public Domain program that can take ascii text 
> files and read them out loud.  Preferably, I would like one that 
> uses dictionary lookup for pronounciation, but if it has to use
> phenomes, I can live with that.  It needs to run on either
> a Silicon Graphics Indigo or a Sun Sparc Station 2.

The best public domain program was written by Nick Ing-Simmons and can
be found on:

	svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:/comp.speech/sources/rsynth-0.9.tar.Z

to note:

* this package is good but basic: commercial products will do more

* most speech synthesisers use a phoneme representation at some point.
  Commonly both rules and a dictionary are used, the dictionary overriding
  the worst mistakes the rules would otherwise make.

Tony Robinson
