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NNAAMMEE
        recite - english text speech synthesizer

DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
        The recite program is a combination of programs I picked
        up off the net to do speech synthesis.  I glued them
        together to get something approximating what I was after.

        All I wanted was for the workstation to be able to report
        some errors verbally.  The idea was that I could react
        rapidly to system faults in our distributed computing
        environment.

        The first of the programs was
                Package:          SPEAK
                Author:           John A. Wasser
                Dated:            4/15/85
                Copyright:        none, public domain
                Email:            WASSER%VIKING@decwrl.dec.com
                Archie Pattern:   speak.tar.Z
        The english-to-phonemes portion was extracted, and a few
        names were changed and prototypes added.  The speach part
        was not used, because it stored phonemes in files and
        simple butted them together, giving an unaesthetic
        result.

        The second package used was
                Author:   Klatt
        which only provided phonemes-to-sound.  The difference
        was, this one generated the wave forms algorithmically.

BBUUIILLDDIINNGG RREECCIITTEE
        Full instruction for building the _r_e_c_i_t_e program may be
        found in the _B_U_I_L_D_I_N_G file included in this distribution.

CCOOPPYYRRIIGGHHTT
        The _r_e_c_i_t_e program is Copyright (c) 1993 Peter Miller.
        All rights reserved.

        This program is free software; you can redistribute it
        and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
        Public License as published by the Free Software
        Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
        later version.

        This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
        useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
        implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
        PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
        for more details.

        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
        License along with this program; if not, write to the
        Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge,



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readme(recite)                                     readme(recite)


        MA 02139, USA.

        It should be in the file called _L_I_C_E_N_S_E included in this
        distribution.

AAUUTTHHOORR
        Peter Miller   UUCP    uunet!munnari!bmr.gov.au!pmiller
        /\/\*          CSNET   pmiller@bmr.gov.au

















































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