software speech for speakup

[Shaun Oliver]

well, bugger it! I agree chuck.

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On Thu, 17 May 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> This discussion is improving as it proceeds, I think!
> 
> One more factor to consider is the desirability of offloading peripheral
> tasks to peripheral processors so that the central processor(s) do not
> have to service absolutely everything that happens inside the
> cabinet. Input-Output tasks are ideal candidates for offloading from the
> CPU. That is done in IDE devices, in video cards, in real modems (as
> opposed to Win modems), in keystroke processing inside the keyboard,
> etcetera. Software speech synthesis is a fairly heavy duty processing
> load, and if it can be handed off to an 80186 or whatever, that is very
> good news for the CPU.
> 
> Chuck
> 
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