On Sunday 16 Apr 2006 08:56, Magenta Raine wrote:
> Golly, my dad gave me a laptop for my birthday, with naturally speaking
> software female voice, Kate. There is just one problem; Kate refuses to say
> most swear words! Why do they censor it? It should be up to the people to
> decide. And it's inconsistent. It will say fucked, but not fucker, it says
> shitty, but not ass..... a helper said somebody else's talking device also
> won't say cuss words. i just can't believe it. Anthony, Beth, do you know
> why they do it?   sure I could defeat it by spelling the words slightly
> differently. But why on earth can't folks let us swear if we want to?
> microsoft's Sam can do it, why can't Kate?!
>
> Mag

Hi Mag.

Well "Kate"  can certainly swear like a trooper - see here:-

<http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/demos/tts/tts_example.html>

Its some braindead f****** windows thing the ********!!!

(Oh look my e-mails caught it now!!!)

 Cheers

Deri

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