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From: salbrech@valhalla.eecs.nwu.edu (Steve Albrecht)
Subject: Re: Speech on my PC
Message-ID: <1993May23.025510.7819@eecs.nwu.edu>
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Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 02:55:10 GMT
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In article <1tmjigINNbjm@lynx.unm.edu> edith@triton.unm.edu (peter menning) writes:
>In article <1993May21.140736.68266@cc.usu.edu> slgwk@cc.usu.edu writes:
>>In article <1tdmerINN8qc@ub.d.umn.edu>, jremer@ub.d.umn.edu (Jeremy Remer) writes:
>>> Does have, or know of any software on the network that would allow my PC
>>> to talk from text files or from typed in input? 
>
>Well i have found "monolog" on a local bbs cdrom.. it allows text to speech.    
>SB or ADLIB and i think it said it can do it on the speeker..  it has a handy 
>text highlight tsr program that will allow it to talk in telecommunications
>and during wordprocessing... it uses phonetics.. but has a trainable exception 
>dictionary.. i dont know where to find it on the net... and i dont know if the 
>software is still PD..  
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>"Listen here three Eyes,  Dont go weirding out on me..."
>   "I get Stranger Things then you Free with my Cereal"  -Zaphod
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"Monolog" is a trademark of First Byte, Inc.  That is a commercial
product which is bundles with some sound cards(such as the PAS16)).
I doubt that it is leagal for the bbs to be giving it away.

Regards,
Me
salbrech@eecs.nwu.edu
