POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : XKCD for the win : Re: XKCD for the win Server Time
6 Sep 2024 01:24:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: XKCD for the win  
From: andrel
Date: 29 May 2009 11:33:49
Message: <4A20005F.3060502@hotmail.com>
On 29-5-2009 9:55, Invisible wrote:
>>> 1. Hmm, OK. So the PC finally has text-to-speach capabilities, a 
>>> facility that the Amiga had 15 years ago. Interesting.
>>
>>   You can't be seriously claiming that you have never heard of any
>> text-to-speech software for the PC before this.
> 
> Well, considering that the Amiga did it 15 years ago, and it wasn't 
> exactly a "new" idea then... it seems logical that such software must 
> exist for the PC somewhere. I've just never seen (heard?) it.

First one I heard was 'sam' on a C64.

> (Much like, logically, there must exist software for the PC that enables 
> you to typeset music property, but I've yet to find it. Unless you count 
> all those insane TeX extensions...)

What is wrong with (La)TeX? I mean other then you did not really try it 
because it has a learning curve?


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