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Subject: Re: Looking for a generalized speech tool
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Date: 10 Oct 88 09:03:02 GMT
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In article <6303@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, korn@eris.berkeley.edu (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) writes...
 
> 
>A dyslexic friend of mine has a macintosh and would like to be able to
>have text read back to him (using the MacInTalk driver, or some such).
>Something like smoothtalker would work, but ideally it would be a
>CDEV/INIT/DA combo that would allow him to simply select the text he
>wants spoken, and choose "speak" from a DA menu (just like he can say
>"check spelling" with the Coach Spelling system).
> 
>Does such a thing exist?

Yes, it does! I saw an DA MacTalker by James Joaquin on The Best of UpTime
(the Disk Monthly by MacWorld) that does what you want:

MacTalker Desk Accessory - Your Macintosh can talk! Just use MacTalker to 
have the Macintosh read text you typed or whatever you copy to the 
clipboard.