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- BetterSpeech Version 1.1
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- A speech enhancement Utility
- for the
- Commodore Amiga
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- Copyright (C) Dexter (Chip) Orange, 1988,1992
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- BetterSpeechis a program designed to be run in the background
- so it can intercept calls to the Translate routine of the Translator library and
- do some pre-processing of the text before it is translated.
- This processing is usually of two forms:
- substitution of alternate pronunciations for specific words which are normally mispronounced,
- and the translation of numeric sequences into their proper english pronunciation.
- (this latter includes the proper pronunciation of dates such as 1978).
- When BetterSpeech is involked (you do this by typing: RUN BetterSpeech),
- it looks for a file called DEVS:Translator.Exceptions.
- If this file exists, BetterSpeech assumes that it contains a list of
- exceptions and alternate pronunciations for these exceptions.
- The format of this file is:
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- <exception>
- <its replacement>
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- A sample translator.exceptions file
- is provided in this distribution so you can get the idea.
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- You can force BetterSpeech to unload by sending
- it a control-C break with the BREAK command like so:
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- BREAK 2
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- (use the proper task number, the 2 here is
- just an example).
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- BetterSpeech is freely distributable, and I would appreciate any
- coments/suggestions/bug reports at any of the following:
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- U.S. snail:
- 3227 Rain Valley Ct.
- Tallahassee, FL. 32308
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- CIS: 71450,1162
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