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From: jpcampb@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Joe Campbell)
Subject: Re: SpeechManager/MacInTalk Pro/PlainTalk aware applications
Message-ID: <1993Sep13.024158.14858@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
Organization: The Great Beyond
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 02:41:58 GMT
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Listing of Speech Manager/MacInTalk Pro/PlainTalk aware applications, 4e
 
Here are some of the Speech Manager aware text-to-speech (TTS)
applications that I know of (there are more on the Apple Developer
CD-ROMs). If I've missed some, please feel free to add to the list
and also let me know if you disagree with my "Comments." You'll
probably need to increase the memory allocations of Speech Manager
aware applications if you want to use the high quality voices (I
generally add a Meg or two because the high quality voices need a lot
of RAM).As for some applications, the ones I've been playing with
follow.
 
Apple's Speech Manager, with the high quality voices, has a
synthesized voice quality and pronunciation that are among the best
I've heard (Bellcore's Orator might do better with proper nouns). Do
you agree? Has anyone done formal testing of the Speech Manager vs
other TTS systems?
 
If anyone has a Speech Manager aware application that allows
graphical specification of pitch and rate trajectories (akin to
SoundEdit's Bender), I'd love to hear about it.
 
The Speech Manager is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.apple.com in
/dts/mac/sys.soft/speech. There are 3 files in this directory:
 
6273632 Aug 14 22:51 macintalk-pro.hqx
                     PlainTalk Text-to-Speech 1.0 speech synthesizer
                     extension (includes Female Voice, Compressed);
                     TTS Female Voice; TTS Male Voice; and
                     TTS Male Voice, Compressed.
 
 370108 Aug 13 04:30 speech-manager-docs.hqx
                     Apple DocViewer format
 
 262569 Aug  7 07:01 speech-manager.hqx
                     Speech Manager 1.1.1 (includes Marvin's voice) and
                     MacInTalk Voices 1.1.1 (9 more voices)
 
Happy talkin'
Joe
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; Dr. Campbell  N3JBC  jpcampb@afterlife.ncsc.mil  74040.305@compuserve.com ;
; My opinions are mine!   Happiness = Reality - Expectations, Click & Clack ;
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Application        Source            Comments
_______________   ________  _________________________________________________ 
Fortune 1.1       info-mac  Like a talking UNIX fortune command - slick
Tex-Edit 1.8.5    info-mac  Talking word processor, McSink like, modeming
Speecher 1.2.1    info-mac  Customizable word substitution
So To Speak 1.0b6 info-mac  Two voice conversation (also see Fortune's About)
Speaker 1.0.1     info-mac  Simple text file editor, speaks on <CR>, macros
VoiceDemo 1.0     info-mac  Bare bones phrase talker
Welcome!v1.3.1    info-mac  A talking Welcome to Macintosh startup (v1.4?)
Homer 0.92d9  zaphod.ee.pitt.edu  GUI IRC client, assign nicks voices - slick
Siege Watch 1.01f info-mac  Wryly political speaking clock
SpeechManagerdemo info-mac  Command line interface, C source, aka -explorer
Speak It!         info-mac  Type in a message and have it spoken
Eliza 3.1           AOL     Talking Eliza (Rogerian psych therapist)
speek-02b         info-mac  speech XCMD for hypercard
Speech Pack 2.0             4th Dimension external, add speech to data-base
Speech Rhythms      AOL     A cool text file for one of the above apps:
 
ss  cc cc tt  cc cc cc cc cc cc cc   
ss  cc cc tt  cc cc ra ra ra,,,
 
Here are a few rhythms I came up with.  Drop me a line and let me know how you ll ll ll ll ll like them.
Ken Lacovara,,,
 
Bossa Nova,
xx   xx   xx    xx  xx     xx   xx   xx    xx  xx     xx   xx   xx    xx  xx     xx   xx   xx    xx  xx     
 
Conga,
xx     xx     xx    xx       xx     xx     xx    xx       xx     xx     xx    xx       xx     xx     xx    xx       
 
Jazz,
xx   xx  xx xx    xx  xx xx    xx  xx xx  xx xx  xx xx    xx  xx xx    xx  xx xx    xx  xx xx  xx xx  xx xx
 
Rock,
tt      xx  tt      tt   xx  tt      tt   xx  tt   tt   tt   xx     tt      xx  tt      tt   xx  tt      tt   xx  tt   tt   tt   xx
 
Military,
cc cc cc cc cc    cc cc cc cc cc    cc cc cc cc cc    cc    cc    cc cc cc cc cc    cc    cc  cc  cc  cc  cc    cc    cc    
,,,,,
That's ebedee ebedee ebedee ebedee all folks!
pp   pp  pp  pp   pp      pp   pp
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; Dr. Campbell  N3JBC  jpcampb@afterlife.ncsc.mil  74040.305@compuserve.com ;
; My opinions are mine!   Happiness = Reality - Expectations, Click & Clack ;
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