Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu!vkr From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: is there a better speech synthesizer than SAY? Summary: Is there one that does the International Phonetic Alphabet? Message-ID: <642@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Date: 29 Jun 88 18:58:40 GMT References: <7495@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <8940009@hprnlin.rnd.hp> Organization: Ohio State Math-Stats Dept Lines: 7 In article <8940009@hprnlin.rnd.hp>, alan@hprnlin.rnd.hp (Alan Harrington) writes: > There is a program that will probably suit your needs. Its called Smooth > Talker ("ported" from the Mac). Will this pronounce the entire gamut of sounds used by the major languages? I have been looking for one. For one thing I want to show an example of a true voice synthesizer. There are a lot of people out there who don't know how many languages there are, and use 'universal' with no regard to meaning.