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Subject: Macintalk
Message-ID: <1991May24.071611.4646@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
From: chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai)
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 07:16:11 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Computer Science Dept
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Donald Peterson's search for a Mac program that reads text out loud
reminded me that this facility came out with the mac way back in '84 
or so, in the form of Macintalk, but that in recent years, Macintalk
seems to have been abandoned by Apple.

In fact, most of the Macintalk-using programs I had died with 6.0.5
and I think the rest of them went with sys7...

Why??????? Apple coulda boasted that Mac was the only computer that
*came* with built-in speech synthesis... but no, they let it fall by
the wayside.

(If anyone knew of how to use Macintalk with Sys7, I'd appreciate the
info.)

-- 
Ian Chai      Internet: chai@cs.ukans.edu        Bitnet: 665instr@ukanvax
I don't believe in flaming. If I appear to be flaming, either (a) it's an
illusion due to the lack of nonverbal cues or (b) my sprinkler system has
suffered a momentary glitch, so just ignore me until it's fixed.