youngqd@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Dean Youngquist) (04/18/91)
Hello Netlanders, I am in the market for a text to speech converter. Can anyone recommend some good models to choose from? A company by the name of B.G. Micro has a text to speech converter for about $70. I am considering this one. Has anyone bought one of these? How well do they work? Dean Youngquist youngqd@jacobs.cs.orst.edu 428 NW 9th St. Amateur Radio Operator N7LPE Corvallis, Oregon 97330 Tel. (503) 757-0335
wm1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Wayne Alan Martin) (04/18/91)
It works fine for one syllable words, but become unitelligable at about three. It sounds rather mechanical and perform poorly for words outside its vocabulary, unless you sound spell it out yourself. For those who are interested, it is based on the GI SPO-256 chips. I have one, and I would recommend against it if this is a serious application, but it is fun to play with and any thing else I have see costs >$1000. Wayne Martin EE Carnegie Mellon