Bill Daniels wrote:

"tango4" wrote in message
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Come on, guys, it's the 21st century already - this stuff works. Robert,
computers aren't American or any other nationality, they can speak French
too - really.

Yes, I know that from a long time ago. I was working from 1968 to 1985 in
the University of Orsay, were we had a pioneer team working on speech synthesis and
recognition. What I doubt is that commercially available systems would be
speaking French, as the market of French is a very small one. This is not
a technical problem but an economical one.