Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!mtxinu!taniwha!michael
From: michael@taniwha.UUCP (Michael Hamel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk???
Summary: It isn't good enough
Message-ID: <218@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 18:14:15 GMT
References: <6135@zodiac.UUCP>
Reply-To: michael@taniwha.UUCP (Michael Hamel)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <6135@zodiac.UUCP> pkahn@ads.com (Phil Kahn) writes:
>All in favor, deluge this net with support mail!!  All opposed,
>explain yourselves!

OK. MacinTalk speaks Metallic American. I find it difficult enough
to follow phoneme synthesisers anyway but it adds insult to injury
by using a foreign accent. I can't make it speak with a New Zealand
accent because it doesn't have some of the phonemes we use in its set.
I much prefer full waveform synthesis which is a great deal more
comprehensible: all you need is Farallons excellent MacRecorder to
make 'snd ' resources and away you go. At 7.5kHz sampling you use
a fair bit of memory, but surely this is becoming less important
as the megabit DRAMs ramp up and hard disk capacities increase... 
 

-- 
"Where now are those who in times past have opposed the
Group of Seventeen?"

Michael Hamel.