• Voice-controlled Finder AppleScript resource, set up by Dave Miller at Stanford. A collection of AppleScripts for making some common Finder tasks speakable.

• ScriptWeb is a good place to start for scripting on the Macintosh. It's pretty easy to take advantage of Apple's speech technology with any of the major scripting languages for the Mac.

• MacPerl, which enough good things can't be said about. MacPerl is a truly useful tool for scripting on the Macintosh. It is quite useful for pre-processing text to be synthesized. MacPerl, as of 5.1.3, supports Text-To-Speech and Speech Recognition on the macintosh from within Perl using calls very similar tothe ones described in Inside Macintosh: Sound. Matthias Neeracher is online and quite responsive to feedback (Murr on IRC).

• Python has, among the demo scripts for the Mac version, a script to speak he entire dialog of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, using all the voices in your system! a tip o' the hat to Joe Strout for that tidbit. Note: it appears to be broken in this release :( because of stdwin.

This update notice was last updated 4/2/97, though this page may have been updated since then.