This folder contains version 1.4.1 of Apple's text-to-speech products, English Text-to-Speech and Mexican Spanish Text-to-Speech. These products are included both in Installer form and as separate files.
Apple's Installer scripts for text-to-speech make sure that the appropriate speech synthesizers are installed for the hardware and system software available. They also take care to remove the outdated versions of text-to-speech. There are currently four speech synthesizers, each with differing requirements. And there have been many previous configurations released, under a variety of names. So getting this right is no simple task. If you ship text-to-speech, please take advantage of Apple's Installer scripts, either by using them directly or by working from the source for the scripts, which is provided here.
Besides the information in this file, be sure to read the files "Using English Text-to-Speech" and "Using Mexican Spanish TTS" that come with the products.
Folder Contents
Net Installs
This folder contains Installers for both English Text-to-Speech and Mexican Spanish Text-to-Speech. These installers can be run directly from a network server or can be copied to a hard disk and run.
Disk Images
This folder contains 800K disk images for Installers for English Text-to-Speech and Mexican Spanish Text-to-Speech. To use these disk images you will need to use Apple's DiskCopy program to copy the images to floppy disks.
Files
This folder contains all the files that get installed by the Installer versions of English Text-to-Speech and Mexican Spanish Text-to-Speech.
Installer
This folder contains the source for Apple's text-to-speech Installer scripts. This is provided in case you want to write your own Installer script to install text-to-speech.
Additional TTS Voices
In this folder are several voices for English Text-to-Speech and Mexican Spanish Text-to-Speech that are not installed by Apple's installers. These voices may be more appropriate for your special needs.
Scripting
This folder contains a Scripting Addition so that text-to-speech can be used from AppleScript.
Interfaces
This folder contains the interface files needed to write software that uses text-to-speech.
Documentation
This folder contains the Speech Manager chapter of Inside Macintosh: Sound. It also contains a listing of the phonemes for Mexican Spanish as they differ from the English phonemes in Inside Macintosh: Sound.
System Requirements
Mexican Spanish TTS:
System 7.0 or later
68020 or better, including PowerPC
1.3 MB RAM
MacinTalk 2:
System 6.0.7 or later
Any Mac CPU
150K RAM
MacinTalk 3:
System 7.0 or later
33MHz 68030 or faster, 68040, or PowerPC
300K RAM
MacinTalk Pro:
System 7.0 or later
68040 or PowerPC
1.5 MB RAM
Or, for English TTS, you can look at it the other way around:
With System 6.0.7, 6.0.8 use MacinTalk 2.
With System 7 and 68040 or PowerPC use MacinTalk 3 and MacinTalk Pro.
With System 7 and 68030 of 33MHz or faster use MacinTalk 3.
With System 7 and a slower processor use MacinTalk 2.