Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk???

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From: Peter Merchant
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1988 15:20

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In article <193@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA) writes:
>OK, I guess Macintalk is dead (and anyway, it's nowhere
>near the quality I want).  Is any other speech-synthesizing
>software available for the Mac?  How difficult is it to do?

I remember a program called "SmoothTalker" many years back that ran on my 128K
Macintosh and spoke much better than MacinTalk.  The company even offered to
license it to anyone who was interested.

I only know of one company that used it.  They make some software for kids to
learn new words or something similar.  For some reason, the name First Byte
Software comes to my mind, but don't quote me on that.

Take a look in Icon Review, if such a thing still exists, under educational or
children's software.
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"You dropped a bomb on me..."           Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP)
                                              (Peter.G.Merchant@dartmouth.edu)

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