On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 03:14:41 +0000, Robert Riches wrote:

> To be fair, IIUC, at least the early Amigas had some special-purpose
> hardware assistance (the Copper and a couple of other chips) rather than
> doing _everything_ in software.  My older daughter was a little
> non-plussed that it pronounced her name Jen-knife-er when doing from
> plain text to speech.
>
I remember seeing a speech synthesis package on a 6800 system running
FLEX2. The audio card was relatively simple and installed on its SS-30
peripheral bus. This board could be driven from a BASIC program. Details
of the hardware are hazy now, but I remember that you had to misspell
some words for them to be pronounced correctly.


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