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From: Russ Cox rsc@pla...
Subject: [9fans] rsynth, yes enjoyed much
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 13:42:19 -0400

I used rsynth with the dictionaries for a little
while to announce my incoming mail
("mail from whoever").  I had to train it to
pronounce most email addresses, since
things like "rsc" don't appear in dictionaries.

Even so, I found that humans could only understand
it if they were so trained as well.  That is, I could
understand it but no one else could.

It's a neat toy, but it's likely you'ld get annoyed pretty
fast trying to have it read your mail to you.

There's a copy of this message, for example, at 
www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc/rsynth.out
that you can play by doing

	echo -n 'speed 8000' >/dev/volume
	cat rsynth.out >/dev/audio

It's not the easiest speech to listen to.

Russ