Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!merchant From: merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk??? Message-ID: <11197@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 28 Nov 88 15:20:07 GMT References: <6135@zodiac.UUCP> <71150@felix.UUCP> <193@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: Peter.G.Merchant@dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) Organization: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY Lines: 18 In article <193@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA) writes: >OK, I guess Macintalk is dead (and anyway, it's nowhere >near the quality I want). Is any other speech-synthesizing >software available for the Mac? How difficult is it to do? I remember a program called "SmoothTalker" many years back that ran on my 128K Macintosh and spoke much better than MacinTalk. The company even offered to license it to anyone who was interested. I only know of one company that used it. They make some software for kids to learn new words or something similar. For some reason, the name First Byte Software comes to my mind, but don't quote me on that. Take a look in Icon Review, if such a thing still exists, under educational or children's software. --- "You dropped a bomb on me..." Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP) (Peter.G.Merchant@dartmouth.edu)