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In article <2183@iscuva.ISCS.COM> jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) writes:
|In article <11197@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Peter.G.Merchant@dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) writes:
|>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...
|
|I listened to SmoothTalker once, and found it to be most irritating.  I
|much preferred the honest 'computerese' of Macintalk.  . . .

I heard SmoothTalker (demo and as released) a long time ago and my
impression was then that it used Macintalk, and mostly provided a
convenient interface to it from Text files and to the exception
mechanism.  They may have redone the speech part and / or the
translator part for themselves, but my impression from that early demo
was that it was still MacinTalk at heart.  [I don't suppose anyone
form First Byte is here and would care to comment ...]

	/JBL

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