[EAS] Why we need Text-To-Speech

[Harold Price]

I'm not sure what you are saying is a lie, I think some words got 
lost in that sentence.  Please clarify.

Harold

At 03:48 PM 3/19/2012, Alex Hartman wrote:
>How hard is it to write into the rules "TTS engine must be
>user-programmable for local lexicon insertion up to 100,000 words"?
>
>Pretty much tells the manufacturers what they can and cannot use.
>
>That's entirely possible. A TTS engine doesn't take much space, and
>the lexicon file is actually pretty small (under 100Mbytes) for the
>typical TTS engine.
>
>Saying that local lexicon insertion from the manufacturers is a
>flat-out lie IMO. It's software. Just because they might not want to
>do it, or it raises their overhead, so be it. Wanna play the game,
>play by the rules.