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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Truth in Advertising (can the PowerBook talk?)
- Message-ID: <15046@claris.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 23:42:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.163529.7193@SSD.intel.com> <1992Aug19.180057.15796@phri.nyu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug19.180057.15796@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
- >
- > davidl@ssd.intel.com (David Levine) writes:
- > > I've heard that Macintalk doesn't work under System 7, and the PowerBooks
- > > only run System 7 (officially). Therefore Macintalk doesn't work on the
- > > 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.
-
- It may already be too late. HAL said that he was first activated in 1992,
- (on Jan 20th, if I recall correctly).
-