reha (03/14/83)
An amusing anecdote... We recently purchased the new Votrax Personal Speech System. This is a low cost voice synthesizer. We originally had the older Votrax synthesizer. The older unit could pronounce only a few words well. After hours of experimentation by some of the best minds in computer science it was unanimously decided that "chickensh*t" was the best word to demonstrate the capabilities of the unit. Upon receiving the new Votrax we tested it on (what else) the best word. You can imagine our surprise on hearing the word "chickensugar" spoken back at us. The only surprising thing is that this is from a company that used to be (still is?) called the "Federal Screw Works". r.gur lime!orion!reha