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From: gsrjane@techunix.technion.ac.il (TX)
Subject: rsynth for DOS or Windows
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 07:40:03 GMT
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In his message (4157), Joe Wisniewski wrote:

>Subject: Re: Wanted: phonetic text to speech toolkit for SoundBlaster

>If you want a public domain program and are willing to forget Windows, try
>"rsynth" which you can find on svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk (or its many mirror
>sites ;-). I believe the only PC version runs under Linux, but you should
>be able to recompile it for DOS with GNU C.

Has anybody every REALLY compiled rsynth to run on a pc?  It is an 
imposing task, Linux or no. Would GnuC be necessary anyhow, since
(to the best of my limited knowledge) the advantage of GnuC is only that it 
supports ANSII C, which the new Microsoft and Borland C++ compilers do also.

To port this to dos seems  possible, and I would be interested in trying, 
but 

1) if somebody has already done it, it would be reinventing the wheel
2) I would need a lot of help, not being a guru.  Would anybody out there
   be willing to give me some technical support to help me out?  I suspect 
   that it would have to run on  Windows because of the driver support, for, 
   say, Soundblaster.

Comments from those who have been there would be much appreciated.

David Tal, Haifa, Israel
