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In article <4545@rosie.NeXT.COM> bloschen@next.com (Brent Loschen) writes:
>In article <dillon.0kel@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US  
>(Matthew Dillon) writes:
>> 
>>     We've been searching around for something roughly equivalent to the
>>     Amiga's narrator device for the NeXT.  Essentially, something into
>>     which we can stuff plaintext (or phonemes) and which outputs a
>>     synthesized voice.
>> 
>

Since the Amiga's Text-to-Speech system is written in a combination of
C and 68000 flavor assembler, porting it to the NeXT would be fairly
straight forward.  The only involved part would be re-writing the 
synthesis kernal to run on the 56000 (not necessary but nice).  In
fact, given the NeXT hardware, an even more sophisticated model could
be run.  I know these things because I am one of the authors of the Amiga's
speech synthesizer.  Anyone from NeXT care to drop me a line? :).

--Joe Katz
jkatz@netcom.com