Narrator Translator Library (Amiga)

Narrator Translator Library

Platform: Amiga
Description: A US English text to phoneme translator, implemented as a resident software library, for use with the Amiga Narrator Device. This software was supplied as a standard part of the Amiga operating system software up to O.S version 2.04. (Translator version 37.1, 1991) Approximately 700 translation rules are used to create the 'ARPAbet' phonemes. This software is functional on all current Amiga systems (O.S. 3.1).
Availability: limited to pre-owned system software disks and unsold O.S upgrade kits (Pre-O.S. 2.1).

Platform: Amiga
Description: an independent replacement for the Commodore-supplied "translator.library" which is a part of the Narrator speech synthesis package. It implements multi-lingual text-to-speech for an Amiga. The translation rules for each language are defined in a plain text 'Accent' file.
There is a provision for the selection of unique languages for text segments by inserting in-line markup codes in the text: e.g.
"Hello there! \french{Bonjour} \deutsch{gute morgen}".
'Accent' files for American English, British English, Swedish, Maori, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Klingon, Polish, Italian, and Welsh languages included in the archive.
Availability: Amiga The most current version, 42.4, of the library and source are available by anonymous ftp from Aminet:
ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/aminet/util/libs/translator42.lha
ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/aminet/dev/src/tran42src.lha