Many thanks to Lawrence D'Oliveiro and all others who contributed to the discussions regarding the Speech Manager in the comp.sys.mac.programmer newsgroup on Usenet at the time of its first release (10 August 1993).
Lawrence also discovered the undocumented features I use with the SP Voice sound function and he helped me to implement it. Many thanks, Lawrence! These features are now partially confirmed by Apple and published for experimental use only.
Also thanks to Mark Harlan (Speech Technologies Evangelist at Apple Computer) for answering my questions.
Also many thanks to the beta-testers for their time and effort:
Michael Ginsberg, MDG Computer Services (72160.630@compuserve.com)
”… works great, much, much improved. It works great with the PlainTalk (high quality) voices. … The speech works great, while 4D is running you can even switch to another application and the speech continues (I guess a feature of the Speech Manager). …“
Kyle J. Smith, Central Mn Group Health Plan (kylesm@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu)
”I have now used Speech Pack in a database that about 6 people use... they all loved the computer grabbing their attention by saying 'Warning' rather than beeping!
Once again, I find Speech Pack to be very solid and works well on a variety of systems.“
Philippe Giraud (lricio@calvacom.fr)
”Thank you for writing this external package, which is very, very useful. Congratulations!“
John Osteen, Canterbury School (73207.3324@compuserve.com)
”We use it with our computer spelling program. It is a "must have" for this purpose“
Max Stern Hanf (STERNHAN@rulcri.LeidenUniv.nl)
A few others have responded to me with questions and compliments. Thanks for the support! I have already received several postcards and payments!
