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From: jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacinTalk, speech generation, & Apple R&D system software
Summary: One more point
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Date: 30 Nov 88 21:45:38 GMT
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To my earlier (rushed) posting of earlier today, I'd just like to add that
there is a great deal of potential applications for MacinTalk for the 
academic environment in:  education, languages, psychology, and as mentioned
earlier by another poster, the visually impaired (something that I toyed
with a little last year, and hope to be getting back to soon).

Please, Apple, please include in the system software a MacinTalk driver!
And, if possible, an application that offers:  pitch control, volume control,
words per minute control, voice choices (e.g., male voice, female voice,
robotic voice), and special characters offering special sound effects
(e.g., option S = siren, option H = high-low double-tone, option X = static,
option A (placed before a phoneme) adding an accent either in volume or pitch
or both so as to add stress to a syllable in a word (thus allowing potential
for Macs used by others in foreign/non-english speaking countries).

Again, Apple, don't miss this opportunity!


						Jim Collymore