[EAS] Why we need Text-To-Speech

[Harold Price]

Alex,

No problem - it just wasn't clear to me what point you were making.

[off topic]

I was, an ever more depressingly long time ago, first exposed to text 
to speech way back with the Votrax made by Federal Screw Works.  This 
was a stand alone unit with a serial port and a keyboard, one phoneme 
per key.  The good old days.

We had it hooked to the mainframe, reading the closed section numbers 
during student sign-up for classes week (the old way, 10,000 people 
stood in line to present a list of class numbers they wanted to 
operators using TTY33 110 baud terminals).  At the post registration 
review, the popular suggestion from students was to not have the 
Swedish guy reading the closed section numbers next year.

Harold