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From: gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu (Glenn C. Brown)
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Subject: Re: Long Live Macintalk!
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Date: 9 Mar 90 14:45:41 GMT
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bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:

>I think it's ludicrous that Macintalk will no longer be a part of the
>Macintosh, come System 7.

[...]

>Is there any way that Apple can be persuaded to revamp MacinTalk for
>System 7?

	The really depressing thing to me is that I hear (from a very reliable
source) that someGuy@Apple ran some sort of neural net on a phonetic
dictionary (using apple's CRAY) and manged to distill the pronunciation rules
of English (even the irregular stuff) down to a file of < 100k.  I here that
their favorite demo of the program is that it could pronounce "jaberwoky" (sp?)
correctly, not to mention just about every NORMAL English word you can think
of...  Now, if only the can make Mac sound a little less robotic and a bit more
like Marylin Monroe. =-)

	You know, I'm pretty sure that Macintalk didn't ship w/ 6.0:  I had
a heck of a time finding a version of	"	that didn't crash my //!

	Maybe they're not shipping Macintalk because they're saving it for
release with some Mac //s (for sound as good as a Apple //gs, but stereo).=-)
	Really, a revamp of the sound capabilites of the Mac would explain
why Apple hasn't wasted time on a version of Macintalk that would have to be
rewritten soon for a new machine w/ diff. sound capabilities.

--Glenn