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From: edusoft@utecfa.UUCP (Educational Software)
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Subject: Re: Got info on MacIntalk ???
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Date: Sat, 26-Jul-86 02:13:05 EDT
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I don't know for certain the origins of Macintalk (so take the following
with a pound of salt).......

I have played with it using Experlisp, and it's quite neat.

I also had to look at a Votrax speech synthesizer for the //.

Low and behold, they make the same sort of mistakes on words.

Knowing something about rule-based speech synthesis, this leads me to
believe that they contain the same rules.

BTW, it doesn't strike me as such a great speech synthesizer, try for example:

"The brown cow strove to hove into down town."

(it's admittedly contrived).

It also has trouble with "roll".

But then language poses real big problems (if you want more details
e-mail me, i'll be glad to bitch about my problems).

bill idsardi
linguist
educational software products
1263 bay st.
toronto
416-922-0087
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