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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk???
Message-ID: <1669@pur-phy>
Date: 22 Nov 88 08:14:35 GMT
References: <6135@zodiac.UUCP> <20983@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <20983@apple.Apple.COM> jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) writes:
>	The reason that Apple Computer does not support MacinTalk, is because
>we do not have the sources to MacinTalk.  MacinTalk was done by a third
>party back when the Macintosh was only a gleam in Steve Job's eye.
>[...]
>	Though we are not supporting MacinTalk, we are looking at supplying
>speech on the Macintosh.  A number of possibilities are under investigation.

I hope that the new speech drivers, if you decide to implement them, sound
better than MacinTalk.  I have no idea what the inherent limitations of this
type of thing are, but it *is* kind of a bummer that speech off my Mac II
sounds the same as the speech off a Mac 128, which sounds the same as a
$10 Speak and Spell.  

-Sho