With the current Mac capacities for voice and AppleScript, that wouldn't be 
all that hard to write.

larry

At 02:27 PM 4/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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
> >
> >
>
>
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