Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!ksr From: ksr@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Kenneth S Redler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk??? Message-ID: <11259@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 30 Nov 88 20:03:32 GMT References: <6135@zodiac.UUCP> <71150@felix.UUCP> <193@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> <11197@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <2183@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: ksr@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Kenneth S Redler) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 24 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: ||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. Smoothtalker's |accent was very, umm, ingratiating (??) sounding. About as much fun to |listen to for extended periods of time as baby talk (snookums). Made |me want to club it in the face! It also had only one inflection |pattern. Start high and proceed low through the sentence, with a few |slight wobbles near the end (kind of like when you run out of breath at |the end of a sentence). Gack. Gave the word 'smooth' a bad name. |Anybody else have this reaction to it? | Yes. It also seemed to lack the same "future" features as Macintalk, such as the female voice; these teasers were present in the menus, but grayed out. I found the speech patterns...well...plaintive. -Ken ================================================================================ Ken Redler ksr@eleazar.dartmouth.edu ================================================================================