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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: 2.1 & translator
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.173435.17094@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 17:34:35 EST
- References: <1993Jan26.213452.19597@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Cornell University
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- In article <1993Jan26.213452.19597@sfu.ca>,
- donison@fraser.sfu.ca (Brad Donison) writes:
- > I just got 2.1 installed on my 2000 a week ago. CBM has removed the
- > translator.library from the OS and I can not find any reference in the
- > manuals about its replacement! So has the AmigaOS completely lost the
- > text to speach ability? I have a few programs, such as Excellence! and
- > AmigaVision, which allow the Amiga to "talk back" to me. I hope that
- > there is a replacement for the translator.library somewhere. I tried
- > placing the 1.3 version library and it did no good at all. Anyone have
- > any info on this???
- >
- > Brad...
-
-
- C= removed the speech synthesis libraries in order to save money. In my
- opinion, this was not smart, since speech synthesis is one of the few remaining
- features of the Amiga that set it apart from all the rest (aside from a true
- multitasking operating system :-).
-
- I think your replacement didn't work because it was not a complete replacement.
- There are _two_ libraries necessary for speech synthesis, translator.library
- (which translates words into corresponding phonetics) and narrator.library
- (which actually provides the speech synthesis).
-
- If you replace both of them, you should have no problem.
-
- -David
-
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