🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <27542@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student) writes:
> In article <156@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
> >
> >What I would really like to see in wb1.4 or 1.5 is a decent voice for the
> >Amy. The synthetic voice Amy has now sux. it sounds like a cross 
> >between Arnold Swarzenegger and the Muppets Swedish Chef! The 'female'
> >voice is even worse! It sounds like a transvestite swedish chef.

I tried out the Smooth Talker from EA, and indeed the voice is considerably
better sounding.  As I recall what IT still had as a potential defect was
its inter-phoneme connection (talked with something of a click so to speak),
      [aarrgghh! - even when being serious, the puns creep in  ^^^^^^^^^^^]
and similar problems (used the same translator.library????) as the built-in
speaker.  I have not checked how much memory the smooth talker takes and
have no memory whatsoever about its memory-time-hogging capabilities.
(just borrowed it for a short time from a friend... guess I may have
to go out and BUY a copy, because I AM still interested... have a
speech interface project going on back burner now and then.)

Rob Peck