i guess the others 'worked' on lowly 8 and 16bit computers as they had 'chip music' sound chips and we never really had that option with adlib or creative in the early days and beep wouldnt cut it
to them the phonetic alphabet would just be small chunks of data (by todays standards) yet on a pc you'd need alot of (perhaps) cd quality wav files to stitch words together
or do what interplay did over a decade ago with a startrek game
have some patented script that people read out that sounded gibberish
then mark the sound file with reference points
they managed to get jean luc picard to sound like jean luc picard even though patric stewart only read a small script instead of every line of dialogue (which was the norm for the time)
to them the phonetic alphabet would just be small chunks of data (by todays standards) yet on a pc you'd need alot of (perhaps) cd quality wav files to stitch words together
or do what interplay did over a decade ago with a startrek game
have some patented script that people read out that sounded gibberish
then mark the sound file with reference points
they managed to get jean luc picard to sound like jean luc picard even though patric stewart only read a small script instead of every line of dialogue (which was the norm for the time)