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Text to speech programs for System 6 ?
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2023-06-28 08:05:12 How can I make my SE (System 6.0.8) speak text? Ideally in the classic "sure is great to get out of that bag" voice. I've tried MacinTalk and SmoothTalker but the voices are not great in my opinion. Thanks.
Posted by: joshc on 2023-06-28 08:36:47 MacSpeak - Macintosh Repository MacSpeak This is the original speech synthsizer app that Steve Jobs used to make the Mac 128k demo. (PS: I can't belive how long it... www.macintoshrepository.org
Posted by: joshc on 2023-06-28 08:39:46 So SmoothTalker is supposed to have better synthesis than MacInTalk. MacInTalk was used for the first demo which was done on a prototype 512k.
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2023-06-28 08:46:40 That's it! Thanks!
Posted by: LaPorta on 2023-06-28 08:51:45 Can’t get any cooler than MacinTalk though!
Posted by: smrieck511 on 2023-06-28 09:02:04 Can’t get any cooler than MacinTalk though! yeah, I must've had the wrong version or something. The link above is the one.
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