Editing Speech synthesis (section)

=== AmigaOS ===
[[File:Amiga speech synthesis.flac|thumb|Example of speech synthesis with the included Say utility in Workbench 1.3]]
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The second operating system to feature advanced speech synthesis capabilities was [[AmigaOS]], introduced in 1985. The voice synthesis was licensed by [[Commodore International]] from SoftVoice, Inc., who also developed the original [[MacinTalk]] text-to-speech system. It featured a complete system of voice emulation for American English, with both male and female voices and "stress" indicator markers, made possible through the [[Amiga]]'s audio [[chipset]].<ref>{{Cite book |author=Miner, Jay |year=1991 |title=Amiga Hardware Reference Manual |edition=3rd |publisher=[[Addison-Wesley]] Publishing Company, Inc. |isbn=978-0-201-56776-2|display-authors=etal|author-link=Jay Miner }}</ref> The synthesis system was divided into a translator library which converted unrestricted English text into a standard set of phonetic codes and a narrator device which implemented a formant model of speech generation.. AmigaOS also featured a high-level "[[AmigaOS#Speech synthesis|Speak Handler]]", which allowed command-line users to redirect text output to speech. Speech synthesis was occasionally used in third-party programs, particularly word processors and educational software. The synthesis software remained largely unchanged from the first AmigaOS release and Commodore eventually removed speech synthesis support from AmigaOS 2.1 onward.

Despite the American English phoneme limitation, an unofficial version with multilingual speech synthesis was developed. This made use of an enhanced version of the translator library which could translate a number of languages, given a set of rules for each language.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.aminet.net/util/libs/translator42.readme |title=Translator Library (Multilingual-speech version) |last1=Devitt |first1=Francesco |date=30 June 1995 |access-date=9 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226143859/https://uk.aminet.net/util/libs/translator42.readme |archive-date=26 February 2012 }}</ref>