On 17 Jan, Glenn Ervin <GlennErvin at cableone.net> wrote: > Too bad that nobody has developed a good software synth for DOS. I > messed with SbTalker, long, long ago, but that did not work all that > well. eSpeak can be compiled and run on FreeDOS. Dietmar Segbert has done this and put a makefile in the eSpeak Source download from: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ At least it can make a WAV file of speech. I don't know how you would play it. It can also make phoneme (pho) data for mbrola voices, if they can run on DOS.
