I was pottering about the house this morning and was thinking a bout the very 
first speech synthesizer I came across.  A friend of myne hosted a computer 
group and when I went some of the kids would forget I was blind and offer me 
the loan of video games. 

Anyway one night at this computer club I was shown a speech synthesizer 
available in England for fifteen pounds but I remember you had to indicate when 
programming the synthesizer how you wanted a word pronounced.  For example , if 
you wanted the word party to be pronounced as party you would say party = 
partee as a way of indicating to the synthesizer just how you wanted the word 
pronounced.  I would have loved to take up the challenge of programming the 
thing with a vocabulary, but didn't have access to a computer at home then, 
like I do now so couldn't do it.  It's one of the few regretsin my association 
with computers, but there's heeps of challenges ahead for us techo guys. 

Regards all 

Dennis Arms. 

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