Abstract: A system for generating an audio message over a communications network that is at least partly in a voice representative of a character generally recognizable to a user. Either a voice message or text based message may be used to construct the audio message. Specific recordings of well known characters is stored in a storage means and background sound effects can be inserted into the audio message which are stored in database. The audio message is constructed by any one of the processing means and transmitted to a recipient for play back on a processing terminal.

Abstract: A computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tool is provided in which a cutting tool is movable along a programmed path determined by a part program in a programmable control unit (PCU). A trajectory interpolator receives high level motion commands and a feedrate specification from the PCU to produce interpolated position commands. A position controller controls movement of the cutting tool in response to the interpolated position commands. The machine tool further includes a handwheel and a manual pulse generator (MPG) which can be used in MPG feed mode to control movement of the cutting tool incrementally along the programmed path in either the forward or reverse direction. In MPG feed mode, an MPG feed specification from an MPG position counter is superimposed onto the feedrate specification in the trajectory interpolator.