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Old November 10th 06, 09:59 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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James Farrar wrote:
It's *awful*. Gaps in totally the wrong places in reconstructed
sentences.


Why did the redo it anyway, was it because of the T5 extension?
Surely it would have made more sense to use a speech synthesizer
anyway instead of digitised audio,then no re-recording necessary.
Just type in the new phrase and you're done. Its not like they sound
like Speak & Spell these anymore so why arn't these systems used?

B2003