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Subject: Re:  SmoothTalker(tm) Warning
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 10:22:31 EST
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From: winkler@harvard.ARPA (Dan Winkler)

Sorry to hear SmoothTalker turned out so bad.  Good news though:  when Larry
Tesler visited Harvard a few weeks ago he showed us a speech synthesizer that
Apple will be giving away soon.  It sounded better than the SmoothTalker demo,
and we were actually able to type in text to it and (in real time) hear it
spoken to us.  It was really very impressive and it will be distributed
free as drivers (one for text to phoneme, one for phoneme to speech)
and will come with one of the future software supplements.  We've also heard
that each part of this product will be about 8k, or 1/3 the size of the
corresponding parts of SmoothTalker.

Larry also showed us a Clascal program that implements a generic Macintosh
application.  It does once and for all much of the work that anyone who
writes a Mac application normally spends many hours doing by hand (such
as alligning scroll bars in windows and setting up event loops).  He
showed two examples of how you can, with only a little changing and
adding class of definitions and code, tailor it to your particular needs.
It looked very nice and I can't wait to convert one of my C programs to
Clascal to see how good it really is.

We also saw an early version of Macintosh Logo.  It of course has turtle
graphics but because it is so fast they use a bunny rather than a turtle.