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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
- Subject: Re: Truth in Advertising (can the PowerBook talk?)
- In-Reply-To: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu's message of 19 Aug 92 18:00:57 GMT
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:15:10 GMT
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- .nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
-
- > PowerBook, and I'm not aware of any commercially-available (actually
- > released, not just vaporware) speech software other than Macintalk.
-
- Talking Moose works just fine under System 7. I don't think it
- uses Macintalk, but does it's own speech generation.
-
- > "Dr. Langley taught me to sing a song. Would you like to hear it?"
-
- Ah, but can the PowerBook sing? We may have to wait another 9
- years for that.
-
- The PowerBooks can read pre-recorded speech...
-
- Some really cool text-to-speech demos have been given in public.
- The software's supposed to be in beta.
-
- --
- - I have decided that it is not boxes but my lack of skill that's the problem.
- - Traitor! This kind of attitude will get you nowhere around here. If you must
- know, it's not your boxes that are the problem, it's your lack of a
- sufficient number of boxes. Go out and buy something.
-