SAYNUM v0.3
               by Roger Burton-West <ubte30e@ucl.ac.uk>
                   copy freely and of your own will

        SAYNUM is a routine to allow the Psion S3a to speak strings of
numbers, using sampled sound.  Rather  than  just  a string of digits,
the output is in full  spoken-number  format, including correct use of
"and" (not usually found in American-sourced routines).
        Numbers up to 999,999,999 will be spoken correctly; I have not
inserted any  multipliers  higher  than  1,000,000.   Figures  after a
decimal point will be spoken  as  a  string  of digits.  Leading zeros
will be stripped.  Negative numbers are also catered for.

        The stub routine supplied in  SAYNUM.OPL simple takes a number
as input and speaks it aloud.  An  example of a marginally more useful
routine is in  TIME.OPL,  which  speaks  the  current twenty-four-hour
time.
        In general, call saynum:(n$) with  the  relevant string as the
sole parameter.
        Examples of use: speaking  clock,  dice  roller, system stats,
astronomy . . .

        The .WVE files included  were  recorded  by  me, and aren't of
particularly good quality;  they're  intended  as  an  example,  and I
suggest you record your  own.   (If  anyone  has better-sounding ones,
please pass them back to me!)
        The .WVE file contents should  be  clear from their names; the
only oddities are "0000000" ("million"),  "000" ("thousand"), and "00"
("hundred").

        As is usual, I have  to  issue  a  disclaimer of liability; if
anything you do with this program wrecks your love life, destroys your
S3a, gets you arrested, starts  World War III, or indeed does anything
else you consider an adverse outcome,  you have my sympathies but very
little else.
        On  the  other  hand,  comments  and  suggestions  are  always
welcome.

        24 November 1993
        Roger Burton-West
        ubte30e@ucl.ac.uk