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JD,

Thank you for the link.  I'll check it out this weekend.
I wish I could simply buy a bunch of Federal Screw Works VOTRAX
speech synthesizers.  If any reader has some, please let me
know.  

What I am trying to do is write some evolutionary software that
explores the origins of language.  I want to set up a multi-
agent simulation in which there are resources located in 
different areas.  Each agent needs several (e.g. food and
water) but each does not have the energy to collect both. 
Consequently, trade would provide them with a fitness advan-
tage, and language would provide them with a means of trade.

The agents would then evolve a language that suited their 
needs, and I would want the user of the simulation to be able
to "hear" the language being developed.  Consequently, they
would construct it out of English language phonemes, and I 
would output the synthetic language to a phoneme "synthesis
by rule" synthesizer like the VOTRAX.

You would get something with English sounds, but not English
words.  Consequently text-to-speech would be too fancy.  I need
to be able to output at the phoneme level.

Cheers,
Nick Gessler, Ph.D.
gessler@ucla.edu
http://gessler.bol.ucla.edu