Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!suitti
From: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk???
Message-ID: <11142@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 9 Dec 88 18:58:07 GMT
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Reply-To: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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>Here is a "NO" vote for Macintalk, it sounds terrible, and would never
>be easy to use..High quality, low sampling digital speech is much prefered..

	I have a sampler.  It was somewhat expensive.  I have
megabytes of stuff sampled.  I don't have everything I want sampled.
If my programs want to talk, they should be able to talk.  They should
be able to do so without regard to what has been sampled for them.
There is an "eliza" port that optionally speaks everything.  It also
speaks everything that the user types.  You can't do that with sampled
sound.  A sampler will not replace Macintalk (or the other way around).

	If Macintalk is low quality (it is), it should be improved.
There is probably a market for such a thing.  If such a thing were
available, I'd buy it to put into my own commercial products (that
needed such a thing).

	Stephen.