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Subject: Re: an idea/suggestionRe: an idea/suggestion
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From: Björn Stenberg <bjorn_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:08:03 +0200
Glenn Ervin at home wrote:
> Or I wonder if the smallest known synthetic speech engine would fit into the
> OS? this would be fast because it would not rely on the hard drive
> spinning,
This, like many other neat sound hacks, falls on the fact that we can only mpeg audio streams. So in addition to syntesizing speech, we would have to mp3-encode it too before playing it. And then it's not so fast any more. :-)
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:08:03 +0200
Glenn Ervin at home wrote:
> Or I wonder if the smallest known synthetic speech engine would fit into the
> OS? this would be fast because it would not rely on the hard drive
> spinning,
This, like many other neat sound hacks, falls on the fact that we can only mpeg audio streams. So in addition to syntesizing speech, we would have to mp3-encode it too before playing it. And then it's not so fast any more. :-)
-- BjörnReceived on 2003-09-20
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