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From: harris.iblenke@ic1d.harris.com (Ian Blenke)
Subject: Re: WinVoice
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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 12:48:13 GMT
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In article <DKWAN.8.738611307@SYSTEMS.watstar.uwaterloo.ca>, DKWAN@SYSTEMS.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (Kwan's Research Laboratory) says:
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>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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>Derek Kwan 
>dkwan@zeus.UWaterloo.ca 
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Can't say I didn't warn you.... ;P
If you put the PC speaker (ick!) driver in, it works just fine.
