Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!apple!claris!UUCP!peirce From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Macintalk Message-ID: <0B01FFFB.gfnouf@outpost.UUCP> Date: 24 May 91 20:21:41 GMT Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) Organization: Peirce Software Lines: 19 X-Mailer: uAccess - Mac Release: 1.1.b3 In article , neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes: > > >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. > > I thought a complete rewrite was under way for some time. The new speech software that Apple showed at the Developer's conference was pretty good. Not light years ahead of Macintalk (to my ear), but with a lot more emphasis on "those boring details" like making it work with foreign systems and in alternate voices. Don't know when it might hit the streets though... -- Michael Peirce -- outpost!peirce@claris.com -- Peirce Software -- Suite 301, 719 Hibiscus Place -- Macintosh Programming -- San Jose, California 95117 -- & Consulting -- (408) 244-6554, AppleLink: PEIRCE