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Article #34567Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk???
From: Mark Interrante
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1988 23:56
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1988 23:56
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In article <6135@zodiac.UUCP> pkahn@ads.com (Phil Kahn) writes: >The addition of textually generated speech can greatly enhance some >interfaces and programs. MacinTalk (from APDA) provides such a >facility. Yet, Apple doesn't support this code... I am in favor of supporting this useful tool. I think it should be a part of the OS. Apple is in the position to create a truely multimedia machine if they provide the same support for sounds,animation, and voice, as they do for bitmaps,buttons, and text. It seems that treating all the objects in a uniform manner will increase their usage in NOVEL applications. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Interrante Software Engineering Research Center mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu CIS Department, University of Florida 32611 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "X is just raster-op on wheels" - Bill Joy, January 1987
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!mfi From: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk??? Message-ID: <19258@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 18 Nov 88 23:56:50 GMT References: <6135@zodiac.UUCP> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu () Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 17