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In article <1993Jan26.045957.12738@netcom.com>, harrym@netcom.com (Harry Myhre) writes:
|> 
|> 2) You might find it available for download on a local BBS. You
|> could buy 'The Talking Moose' from one of the mail order outfits. 
|> The Talking Moose ships with Macintalk. It's a DA that pops up on
|> your screen and says something using the Macintalk synthesized speech.
|> 
|> 3) Don't know if it works with system 7, but I would imagine that
|> if it's shipping commercially with 'The Talking Moose' that it does.
|> No publisher in his right mind would distribute software these
|> days that isn't system 7 compatible.

Just to clarify...

The versions of Macintalk that you find on BBS's are not the same as the
one that ships with the 'Moose. I have heard rumors of a version of 
Macintalk that is System 7 compatible and freely available (or at least
non-commercial) but I never found one. Every version I ever found either
1) didn't talk 2) crashed immediately 3) caused a crash on a sound after
speaking or 4) some such combination of the previous three problems.

I finally popped for the $24 to buy Talking Moose (USA mail order price).

If you have use for a (funny-sounding) talking Mac, I strongly recommend
that you buy Talking Moose and use the included moose-version of Macintalk.
It comes with a couple of text-to-speech tools, including a moose XCMD.

It has given me no trouble on my LCII with 7.0.1+.

(Well, almost no trouble. It seems that the Moose DA/INIT/... conflicts
somehow with At Ease, which I use to keep my kids from trashing my HD.
So I have fallen back to only using the Macintalk part of Talking Moose,
which is all I really wanted anyway... I notified Baseline Publishing of
the problem. :-( )

P.S. There are long-standing rumors of an Apple "son-of-Macintalk" with
greatly improved pronunciation, etc. It has been shown at developer's
conferences. For some reason, Apple appears to be sitting on this technology.
In any case, given Apple's new OS pricing strategy, it will probably
cost a non-trivial amount of money to acquire, if and when they ever choose
to release it...

Summary: Buy the Moose.

Disclaimers: Just a satified Moose customer, I don't speak for Boeing
-- 
Jim Glidewell
jbg@sdc.boeing.com or jbg%sdc@atc.boeing.com