Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!bbn.com!levin From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk??? Message-ID: <32853@bbn.COM> Date: 30 Nov 88 14:34:31 GMT References: <6135@zodiac.UUCP> <71150@felix.UUCP> <193@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> <11197@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <2183@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Organization: BBN Communications Corporation 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: |>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... | |I listened to SmoothTalker once, and found it to be most irritating. I |much preferred the honest 'computerese' of Macintalk. . . . I heard SmoothTalker (demo and as released) a long time ago and my impression was then that it used Macintalk, and mostly provided a convenient interface to it from Text files and to the exception mechanism. They may have redone the speech part and / or the translator part for themselves, but my impression from that early demo was that it was still MacinTalk at heart. [I don't suppose anyone form First Byte is here and would care to comment ...] /JBL UUCP: {backbone}!bbn!levin POTS: (617) 873-3463 INTERNET: levin@bbn.com