Short:        Experimental Dutch Accent (10-Jul-1997)
Author:       kruse@cs.utwente.nl (Hans Kruse)
Uploader:     kruse cs utwente nl (Hans Kruse)
Type:         util/libs
Version:      2.0
Requires:     Translator43.0 (See Tran43pch.lha)
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
Distribution: Aminet/Aminet-CD

This is an experimental Dutch accent demonstrating some of the new  features  of
this  version  and some special phoneme combinations to overcome the lack of the
proper Dutch: sch ,g s ui ui sounds in Narrator 37.7, The uu sound doesn't  work
properly  yet.  The  name  "Amsterdam"  is chosen to distinguish it from the the
coming enhanced dutch.accent also developed by me.  This  will  be  as  good  as
!USA.accent.

This accent is optimized for use with Narrator 37.7 and requires Translator43.

warranty

This file is provided AS-IS, so no warranty. If it crashes your system,  I  like
to know why but I will not be responsible!

You cannot use it for a profit:sell it as part of or as a commercial product,  I
have  the  rights.  If  you want to spread an altered version please contact me.
Improvements will be to the benefit of  everybody.  Distribution  only  permited
through AMINET or AMINET CD's!

I also included an older nederlands.accent (I'm already  working  on  it  for  a
while.)  which  is  a  bit  better but less organized, and it surly crashes your
machine sooner or later. It's easy to be seen How handy the  empty  matches  and
lhs-reference features Mr. Barlow implemented can be:

It's not easy to do speak things from right to left like some dutch numers  when
reading from left to right using version 2.


   Installation

   Copy or move the Amsterdam.accent file to the Locale:accents directory.
   (which should also be SYS:Locale/accents directory or the
   HD0:Locale/accents directory.)

                                               Hans Kruse
                                               Zenegroen 13
                                               7577 AM Oldenzaal
                                               The Netherlands

                                               kruse@cs.utwente.nl