mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (04/04/84)
I have had the luck to play with an early version of MacTalk, a phoneme
based sysnthesizer for the Macintosh. For a phoneme synthesizer, it
is very good, especially when you consider that the Mac contains no
hardware specialized for voice synthesis. That 4-voice waveform generator
does it all (no, I haven't made a Barbershop Quartet). The voice
quality is pretty reasonable, and there seems to be some concern for
co-articulation ("the apple" coded as DHAX AEPUL is considerably less
smooth than as DHAXAEPUL). Like any phoneme synthesizer, it burbles
at times, but less than most. Prosody control seems to be quite good, as well.
As someone else put it: "Magnificent Mac"
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Martin Taylor
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