Hello, this week I've added quite a bit to the speech synth. The architecture has been modified quite a bit and now consists of a processing pipeline where you can switch the elements if you want to experiment. I've integrated number and character name reading. CMUDICT, the freely available pronounciation dictionary, is supported. You will need to get CMUDICT.0.6 from Carnegie-Mellon and scan it using the class CMUDict. The VoiceSynthesizer plugin is not affected, so you can use it as before. Before you file in the new stuff, you should remove the category "Speech Synthesis" because the structure of some classes has changed significantly.
For download simplification, I've added my SqSpeech shared lib for the Mac (as a MacBinary file) and Andreas Raab's DLL for windows to the zip file.
As before, it can be found at http://www.heeg.de/~hmm/squeak/SpeechSynthesis.zip
Have fun, Hans-Martin