My favorite geek prank was a text-to-speech test project. It was 1987. (I think).
I had a Macintosh running the TalkingMoose add-on. I had a Foxbase+ program pull a random song lyric sheet from a db, dial a random extension on our companies PBX, and have the Mac "sing" the song, then hang up. I can still crack up former co-workers with a well-timed "Bad, bad Leroy Brown" in a computer-style voice. (Of course, it scared some people who didn't think it was funny at all) Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/05/02 02:15PM >>> I had a texas instruments pc that read and wrote programs to tape when I was a kid. It had the capability to do this - it was really fun. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:00 AM Subject: Creating speech > Does anyone here know of any good software to create 'voices' programmatically? Something that I can write a script or the like for to make a specific sound or collection of sounds? I have a project that I'm thinking about to teach Hebrew and I need to have the program say Ah, Eh, Ee, Oh, and other phonemes. > Thanks > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
