Text-to-Speech

[Ken Norris (dialup)]

on 4/15/02 6:26 AM, Barry Levine at themacguy at mac.com wrote:

> I was not 100% clear about what the developer was going to do. The sound
> files he is going to create are for a relatively simple educational
> game. The "sounds" are actual words or phrases and they will be linked
> to specific fields containing those specific words or phrases. This
> means that what he is doing is not really "text-to-speech" but just
> playing pre-existing sound files based upon some programmatical logic.
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I was pretty sure about that.
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> However, your mom's situation can be addressed using the text-to-speech
> external on a Mac. Why not get her a Mac?
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That's a good idea in my opinion, but another choice may be to record
messages into a compressed format and send it as an attachment. But that
would mean a little extra work on both ends, the right software, etc.

Thank you,
Ken N.