a bit of trivia I found interesting

[shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:10:24PM -0500, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Ok, so, it's rural:).
> 
> Hee Haw,
> 
> -Dave
> 
> Glenn Ervin writes:
>  > Given the small percentage of Blind folks to the number of sighted, I'd call
>  > this a rural legend, rather than an urban legend.  Haw!
> 
ok then, rather than going off and srpouting legeond, let's have some
facts to mull over.
http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~slemmett/dippa/chap2.html
this site should give you a farely comprehensive overview of the history
and developement of speech synthesis with some sound grabs to boot.
I used it not long ago for an assignment task.
hth


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