You'd bog down the client in no time.
Text chat from multiple sources comes in faster than human speech.
To accomodate this, you'd have to either queue the stuff up in an ever increasing wait for the TTS engine.
If you want an example of this and how bad it would work, download MIRC, download Microsoft Agent, enable MIRCs text to speech function, then go into any crowded IRC channel.
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Run many instances of the TTS engine in order to handle parallel speech queues. This would eat up system resources like nobodys business.
I don't have a working example of this other than trying to run 7 or 8 audio intensive programs under entropia and see how it handles.
Stick to 3rd party VOIP apps like Roger Wilco Mk Ic, Team Speak, and Ventrilo. These let you communicate effectively with the people you *want* to communicate with, and without spam, spyware, or other bothers.
AG
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