voice synthesizer

[tomg]

> 	>Wow!  A friend and I were talking about the same sort of thing the
other
> 	>day.  An old Commodore 64 computer will talk from its SID chip using a
> 	>simple command from Commodore BASIC, with lots of different voice
> 	>parameters.  Sorry, though, it's been so long that I've forgotten the
actual
> 	>commands to use.
> 
> 	It was not directly in the standard basic. You had to load SAM64, the 
> 	speech synth software. The command was SAY "HALLO..."...
> 	There is a similar program for the PC too!

I hate to say anything is better but the Commodore Amiga's 
speech synth is more versatile.(how's that?) I've got millions
(it seems that way) of mod files and samples. Amiga's should
be cheep these days. Easy midi interface and FREE Bars &
pipes Midi software. A cheep adc and you've got a sampler,
a midi machine, a 4 voice synth and an synthetic speech
source. Best of all the tools needed to build mods and most
any sample you could want are all on the web!

-Tom