>> It sounds utterly *terrible* by the way. I'm probably imagining it, 
>> but I'm sure the Amiga did it better.
> 
> I think if you fed phonemes to the speech generator, it did better. If 
> you fed it plain text? Not so much better.

The Windows speach generator sounds "crackly" and discontinuous. As I 
remember, the Amiga's speach synth sounded like an American with a bad 
cold, but the syllables were at least smooth.

(The quality of its phonetic guesses might well have been far worse. I 
recall my sister's name being pronounced as "geNIFEr"...)

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