Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!xanth!kent From: kent@xanth.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: How fast is AmigaBasic? Message-ID: <1537@xanth.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 10:43:02 EDT Article-I.D.: xanth.1537 Posted: Thu Jul 9 10:43:02 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 02:54:42 EDT References: <1348@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> <22714@sun.uucp> Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) Distribution: world Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va. Lines: 28 Summary: side issue Not really pertinent, but since there was an AmigaBASIC thread hanging around, I thought I'd kick in a neat idea that worked. I typed in a text file that needed to be letter perfect (literally) and was several pages long. I live alone, and wouldn't impose the job of helping me check this dog on anyone else, anyway. So, I brought up AmigaBASIC (first time in months), and wrote a little routine with a phonetic, Navy style alphabet (you know, alpha, bravo, charlie), and a matching list of the printed characters, then fed the text to check in, converted it character by character to the alphabetic, phonetic equivalent, and used the say command to read it back to me. Twenty minutes of programming, and about 27 minutes per page to go through the text-to-be-checked, and I cleaned out about two typos per page. No sweat, except I listened for hours (and the suspend menu/control key item worked great when I got a bit stir crazy), and I got what I really trust to be a letter perfect product. I love Amy, and I thought some of the rest of you might find this idea to be of interest. The phonetic forms weren't too hard to develop, and the result was good enough that I could hear it clearly even when the apartment maintenance staff were whizzing by my back door on their John Deere lawn mowers. I used to read to my kids, nice to have a computer read to me as I (re)enter my second childhood, soggy brain cells and all! ;-) Kent, the man from xanth.