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saystring.c [version 0.8 for NeXT Release 2.1] A command line program to speak a text string through NeXT audio out. This is essentially a program that plays concatenated sound files of words with some special treatment for numbers. As such, it only can speak words that have corresponding sound files. Numbers are spoken by concatenating digit sounds. The program is very simple and low overhead, but should be quite usable for applications that needs only limited vocaburary. This has been written to provide voice alerts for monitoring experimental parameters in a biology lab. (Commands come from remote devices via rsh.) Usage: saystring "A line to be spoken" Example: saystring "temperature #39.4 degrees is too_high" Example: saystring "our phone number is #6 #4 #2 _ #6 #4 #4 #0"
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