Talk:SmileBASIC (Petit Computer 3)/@comment-26924640-20150907162603/@comment-14600979-20150909235813

Mmm but there is a lot of sound sharing between English letters. While a C may have soft and hard (basic) pronunciations, those sounds are shared with S and K. A lot of our complex patterns found in words can also be simplified to one or two sounds. I think it might be possible to fit the necessary sounds into 32 waveforms, although that's irrelevant if you:


 * Convert the message sounds to kana equivalents. It does sound weird, but it works.
 * Use Talk and MML data. Um... I mean, it's possible, I guess.
 * Realize that the speech synthesis gets really annoying. Even with Japanese it sometimes makes you want to turn the sound off.  Don't overuse it.  It might even be best for very short phrases where you might use a sound effect, like hitnoises.  And if you're using it for that, chances are you could use recordings.