Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> 1. Hmm, OK. So the PC finally has text-to-speach capabilities, a 
> facility that the Amiga had 15 years ago. Interesting.

never heard of Dr Sbaitso?


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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 1. Hmm, OK. So the PC finally has text-to-speach capabilities, a 
> facility that the Amiga had 15 years ago. Interesting.

Actually, microsoft has had text to speech for a long time built in to their 
assistive technologies. That is to say, Windows came with a screen reader a 
long time ago.

"This is aMEEga speeeeking."

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Invisible wrote:
>>> Has anyone noticed that youtube comments now have an "audio preview"
>>> button next to them that will read your comment out loud before you post
>>> it?
>> 
>> Yep, that was added several months ago. :-)
> 
> ...is this like the one where somebody says "did you know they've taken
> 'gulible' out of the dictionary?"?

http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/10/08/youtube-audio-preview/

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
>> 1. Hmm, OK. So the PC finally has text-to-speach capabilities, a 
>> facility that the Amiga had 15 years ago. Interesting.
> 
> never heard of Dr Sbaitso?

YES!  Finally, someone else who remembers it! :)

What I find really funny is that many TTS systems you encounter today 
still sound like Sbaitso :)

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Chambers

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>> 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.

(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...)

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> 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.

  So because you have never heard about it, you assumed that it didn't exist?

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Warp wrote:

>> 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.
> 
>   So because you have never heard about it, you assumed that it didn't exist?

No. I said "it seems logical that such software _must exist_".

What I assumed is that since nobody I know has ever heard of it, it must 
be reasonably uncommon.

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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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>> (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?

TeX is very good for its intended purpose - typesetting text and 
mathematics. And it *not* very good for anything else. (Most especially, 
trying to typeset musical scores with it just simply *painful*.)

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Invisible wrote:
> exist for the PC somewhere. I've just never seen (heard?) it.

Open your control panel and go to "Speech" in XP or "Ease of access" in 
Vista. It has been there for years and years and years, built in, in a menu 
you probably look at daily. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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