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- TXT2SP is a Turbo Pascal program for converting English text to phoneme codes
- that can be used to drive a phonetically-programmed speech synthesizer. It
- is based on the letter-to-sound rules originally developed by the Naval
- Research Laboratory. The phoneme codes produced by the program are for the
- SSI263 speech-synthesis chip, but it should be possible to modify the codes
- for use with other synthesizers by editing RULES.DAT.
-
- The program reads its input from the standard input device and writes its
- output to the standard output device. By using the DOS redirection feature
- you can redirect the input and output of TXT2SP to disk files as follows:
-
- TXT2SP <inputfile >outputfile
-
- The article "Build a Third-Generation Phonetic Speech Synthesizer" by Steve
- Ciarcia in the March, 1984 issue of Byte magazine describes the translation
- algorithm and gives references for additional information. It also describes
- the SSI263 speech-synthesis chip.
-
- If you have any question or comments about this program please send Easyplex
- mail to Ron Schuster 76666,2322.
-
-
- NOTE: The Covox Speech Thing is an inexpensive but high quality synthesizer.
- It is available for $49.95 from PSL Computer Products (1-800-2424-PSL).
-