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From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why won't/doesn't Apple support MacinTalk???
Message-ID: <430062@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 88 18:43:55 GMT
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Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA
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I would very much like to see voice capability on My Mac but I am not sure
that MacIntalk is what I really want. It is the best that I have seen
so far but...

  It only speaks American English

  It is a pain to get it to say something different. There was an application
    came out around '85, SmartTalk{?}. It would read text files. Unfortunatly,
    it was not easy to understand.

  The voice is very metallic.

What I would like to see....

  CDEV system application.                         

  Run same language as the System

  Read text files

  be able to read user generated scripts triggered by the system or other
    applications {ie user defined audio dialog boxes}

  be easily understandable by someon who is near-by but not paying any
    attention to the computer.
  Oh yes, I want it to run on my 128K Mac under system 1.1 ;*)

TeriAnn

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