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welcome.
Speech‚Ñ¢" within their own commercial programs. Inquiries are
other computers) so they can include and imbed the "Freedom of
of SmoothTalker to other software developers (for Macintosh and
In addition, First Byte also licenses special commercial modules
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spreadsheets, and speech and presentation preparation.
BUSINESS: Proof reading letters, memos, reports,
HOME: Entertainment and education.
other innovative auditory-based learning.
EDUCATION: Story telling, typing instruction, and
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Here are some:
The uses of SmoothTalker are limited only by your imagination.
from Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program.
SmoothTalker read information copied and pasted
Macintosh's Clipboard. For example, you could have
4. SmoothTalker can also read text placed on your
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Word, or Claris's MacWrite word-processing programs.
example, text-only documents created by Microsoft's
another Macintosh program. SmoothTalker can read, for
3. From a pre-stored document that was created using
previously created using SmoothTalker.
2. From a pre-stored SmoothTalker document that was
or bar-code readers.
from devices that simulate keyboard input, like character
1. From the display screen via Macintosh's keyboard or
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SmoothTalker can accept text from several places:
"Using & Showing Phonetics" section in this "User's Guide".
if you so choose. The phonetic codes and examples are shown in the
phonetic coding directly to be read by the "back-end" of the program
SmoothTalker, (normal English works just fine) you can enter
While no knowledge of phonemes (phonetics) is needed to use
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amplifier, or a home stereo system.
a pair of headphones, a tape recorder, an audio
audio-jack, connect your Macintosh to a larger speaker,
speaker. You can also, with the proper "mini"
phonemes into speech through Macintosh's built-in
2. The "back end" automatically converts these encoded
inflections caused by punctuation.
automatically encodes things like stress, pitch, and
hundred English "rules" to the incoming text and
speech called phonemes. It also applies over twelve
automatically converts it into 41 "building blocks" of
1. A powerful "front-end" takes normal English text and
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synthesizer that converts text to speech in two steps:
SmoothTalker is a sophisticated software-only speech
Byte®, the world's leader in software speech technology.
SmoothTalker is the result of several years of work by First
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.Section 2: Introduction to SmoothTalker®
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