Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!corton!imag!gourdol From: gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Macintalk Message-ID: <21868@imag.imag.fr> Date: 24 May 91 13:05:35 GMT References: <1991May24.071611.4646@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France Lines: 23 In article neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes: >The story as I heard it is that Apple only has the *binary* for MacInTalk, >but absolutely no source code. All changes have to be made as binary >patches. And MacInTalk is an *old* program. The first version even >accessed hardware addresses directly. Quite true. And effectively, a new solution to text to speech translation is under way. Apple should release it not too far away from now. This will allow a better quality than Macintalk, with the added possibility to have several voices possible (male, female...). The only drawback is the size it will need, around 400 Kb. BTW, the only name I know of this system is TTS (Text To Speech), but there's probably a juicy code name in use at Apple... Arno. -- /======================//==========================================/ / Arnaud Gourdol. // On the Netland: Gourdol@imag.fr / / // Via AppleLink: Gourdol@imag.fr@INTERNET# / /======================//==========================================/