lj@spdcc.COM (Len Jacobs) (01/27/91)
Is there a known commercial product that allows someone to search on an ascii datafile and respond with an electronic voice? Thus, you dial your local bank, enter your account code, and hear the bank's computer respond with recent transactions and current balance. If this product exists for DOS or Unix computers, please post &/or respond directly. Thank you. -- Len Jacobs lj@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM
davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) (02/04/91)
>>>>> On 26 Jan 91 20:15:02 GMT, lj@spdcc.COM (Len Jacobs) said:
Len> Is there a known commercial product that allows someone to search on an
Len> ascii datafile and respond with an electronic voice? Thus, you dial your
Len> local bank, enter your account code, and hear the bank's computer respond
Len> with recent transactions and current balance.
The Amiga has always had the capability to speak words that are typed in (I've
never tried, but it might handle European as well as American languages).
This capability has been directly integrated into Superbase for the Amiga and
is accessible to most Amiga programs through Arexx (a macro language and
program communications medium).
I understand that the NeXT system has voice capabilities from its built-in
DSP, but I don't know if this has been taken advantage of. PC-DOS systems
would require a some sort of sound board for voice capability (which may
exist, but I haven't seen).
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"If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!"Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White) (02/04/91)
There is a DOS sound board called SoundBlaster that has voice capabilities. -alvin Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect. G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N. Government Online Database Systems Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks alvin@cup.portal.com