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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!alanine.phri.nyu.edu!roy
  2. From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Truth in Advertising (can the PowerBook talk?)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug19.180057.15796@phri.nyu.edu>
  6. Date: 19 Aug 92 18:00:57 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: phri.1992Aug19.180057.15796
  8. References: <1992Aug19.163529.7193@SSD.intel.com>
  9. Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System)
  10. Organization: Public Health Research Institute (New York)
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  12. Nntp-Posting-Host: alanine.phri.nyu.edu
  13.  
  14. davidl@ssd.intel.com (David Levine) writes:
  15. > I've heard that Macintalk doesn't work under System 7, and the PowerBooks
  16. > only run System 7 (officially).  Therefore Macintalk doesn't work on the
  17. > PowerBook, and I'm not aware of any commercially-available (actually
  18. > released, not just vaporware) speech software other than Macintalk.
  19.  
  20.     Talking Moose works just fine under System 7.  I don't think it
  21. uses Macintalk, but does it's own speech generation.
  22.  
  23. >  "Dr. Langley taught me to sing a song.  Would you like to hear it?"
  24.  
  25.     Ah, but can the PowerBook sing?  We may have to wait another 9
  26. years for that.
  27. -- 
  28. roy@wombat.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
  29. Public Health Research Institute
  30. 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
  31. "This never happened to Bart Simpson."
  32.