From: Jason Taylor <jasontaylor_at_rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 20:16:19 -0500 (EST)

>It's true that TTS technology has been around since the 70's, but it
>wasn't until the 90's that PC's had the processing power to handle
>software TTS, at least that's when they started to become common place.
>Prior to that, you had dedicated HW devices which off loaded the
>processing for TTS. I'm not sure, but I suspect porting a TTS to some of
>these small MP3 devices, given their HW and FW, might not be feasible or
>as straightforward as on a system running a full OS.

Thanks for the correction. I guess I was wrong. I had thought I had it on my stock apple ii _at_ 1 mhz. do you happen to know what was the extra hardware they used in the 1961-written code running on a 54khz ibm that I thought I heard in the 2001 movie?
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Received on 2012-11-06