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. :-)

-- 
Björn

Received on 2003-09-20