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>> It sounds utterly *terrible* by the way. I'm probably imagining it,
>> but I'm sure the Amiga did it better.
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> 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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