Peter Seymour wrote:

> I heard an interview with a woman named Amy Mullins, who has a
> prosthesis
> for each leg and was doing runway modeling a few weeks ago.
>
> She was being interviewed on the BBC World Service, and I want to get
> in
> touch with her. I tried typing BBC.org and BBC.com, but they didn't
> give
> me what I wanted.
>
> Does anybody know how to reach the BBC, or how to find out?
>
> And how about tracking down Amy Mullins directly? She is also an
> accomplished athlete in the para olympics.
>
> Secondly, my friend uses a Mac and played several of its screenreading
>
> voices to me. I thought that they were pretty smooth sounding. Some
> had
> names like Fred and bells. Some were fun sound effect based voices,
> and
> others would be pretty practical for me.
>
> For example, I'd like to have my email from females read in a female
> voice, and the voice on the mac was quite good. It is not buzzy, and
> is
> closer to the electronic voice on a talking watch.
>
> Is there any way that we can use those voices on a PC, with a
> soundcard?
>
> Peter Seymour

   Peter,
  I have a DecTalk Access 32 which is software for a PC that uses the
sound card for the synthesizer.  Unfortunately, it doesn't come with a
variety of voices.  It has one voice that sounds much like the DecTalk
Express.
Thanks, Lynne Koller



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