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From: DKWAN@SYSTEMS.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (Kwan's Research Laboratory)
Subject: Re: WinVoice
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 17:48:27 GMT

In article <C7L2rI.Kzp@jabba.ess.harris.com> harris.iblenke@ic1d.harris.com (Ian Blenke) writes:
>From: harris.iblenke@ic1d.harris.com (Ian Blenke)
>Subject: WinVoice
>Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 12:59:41 GMT
>I am currently finishing up a public domain speech synthesizer for Windows.
>There are a few bugs, but the speech DOES work with the standard PC speaker
>and the SPEAK.EXE drivers from Microsoft off of CICA. My current problem is
>with the asynchronous nature of Windows WAV files played on sound boards -
>it throws the synthesizer out of wack after the space pause.
>- This is only a port of SPEAK.tar.Z for the Sun platform
>- Source code was ruthlessly ported from it - so it IS PD
>- It don't quite work yet.
>
>If anyone can mail me a list of FTP sites with source for a better method of
>speech synthesis than the method used in SunSpeak - TELL ME - This version
>has a bit of trouble with quite a few english words.
>
>FTP to caesun6.corp.harris.com ... get /pub/winvoice/WINVCE09.ZIP
>
>And if it crashes your soundcard - don't blame me! I just got one myself, and it
>isn't completely debugged and releasable yet... This is version .9 beta
>
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Oh boy! This Winvoice *IS* really BUGGY!!! It crashed my machine already (
the secont time I run the program and it hangs then when I restart, it 
crashed my hd...)

Please.. make sure the program is WORKABLE before put it on the FTP sites....

^$#@^%$!!

Derek :(
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