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In article <39340@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes:
>Apple is not "pulling the plug" on MacinTalk--it has not been supported
>for years.  One must also realize that in order to avoid the same mistake
>that we have in this case, Apple is not just going to provide some interim
>sound solution which will again break after another system software release.
>It is important for Apple, for developers, and most of all the users that
>we provide a SOLUTION to the problem, not just another problem.  Unfortunately,
>that solution takes a little longer than we would all like.
>
Does this imply that someone at Apple is actually working on a solution
other than "Don't use MacInTalk"?

It strikes me that there is a lot of interest in speech synthesis capability
on the Mac by both developers and users.  In some cases, digitized speech
can be used, but in many cases there are just too many possibilities to
make effective use of digitized speech.  Synthesized speech takes up far
less disk space and is much more flexible in what it can say.

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