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From: arthurem+@CS.CMU.EDU (Arthur E McNair)
Subject: Commercial TTS software for Windows
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 21:43:18 GMT
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For everybody's information...

I just got an ad in the mail from Lernout & Hauspie USA about
a Text-to-Speech Software Development Kit:

Quoted without permission:

"With the software and documentation included in our TTS SDK, you
will be able to integrate state of the art text-to-speech technology
in your own or existing PC applications under Microsoft(R) Windows(TM)
3.1.  This software will allow you to convert written text into clear 
human sounding synthetic speech."

"To develop applications with L&H's TTS SDK you will need: IBM-compatible 
PC 386 DX(33Mhz) or higher, 8Mb RAM, MS DOS 5.0(or higher), MS Windows 3.1
(or higher), Compiler and linker: Microsoft(R) Visual C++ or Borland C++,
Windows(TM) 3.1 compatible sound card, preferably 16 bit, e.g., 
Soundblaster(TM), Windows Sounds System(TM), Pro Audio Spectrum(TM), etc."

The price given is $1,999 per copy, and $499 per each additional language 
(American English, French, German, or Spanish).

The price is too steep for common use, and it doesn't say whether
this can act as a general TTS system, or whether programs you write with
this are distributable at all.

They give a contact for more information as (617) 932-4118 x225

This is definitely NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT for L&H.  I mean this only
as information that people who read this newsgroup would be interested
to know.
