Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!wayback!atux01!jlc From: jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacinTalk, speech generation, & Apple R&D system software Summary: One more point Message-ID: <811@atux01.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 21:45:38 GMT References: <6169@zodiac.UUCP> <810@atux01.UUCP> Organization: AT&T CSEd/CET, Piscataway, N.J. Lines: 19 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