melby@s.cs.uiuc.edu (11/22/88)
I agree that MacInTalk lacks many important phonemes (the Esperanto Stack
made by someone over here at the U of I uses MacInTalk, yielding a very
American pronunciation...) I would like to see a version of MacInTalk that
supports phonemes such as the Japanese 'r' sound ("dl" just doesn't hack it.)
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John Melby
melby@s.cs.uiuc.edu
sjk037%dctwcs.das.net@sun.com (12/22-1/22)
-----leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (11/22/88)
pkahn@meridian.ads.com() in comp.sys.mac > >Why doesn't/won't Apple support this useful and potentially important >tool? Make it sound better, fix known bugs, document better, and >provide interfaces to most popular languages. Apple even throws in the >disclaimer that MacinTalk may not be compatible with future releases. >Why? It could be done through standard sound drivers to maintain >future compatability, right? So what's the problem. We're onlyy >talking about a half a man-year of someone's time at Apple to make this a >powerful, extensible, and extremely useful tool to the developer and >user community. > It is my understanding (correct me if I am wrong Darin) that Apple no longer owns the rights to Macintalk. The original versions were not done by Apple but by the same guys who did 'Say it Again Sam' (I think) for the AppleII. Apple just bought the rights to distribution (I don't know about source) and sometime before the MacII came out this agreement went down the tubes... The MacII compatible version is a 'hack' by none other than Paul Mercer, and was 'bought' by Apple for supporting the II. Therefore it would take A LOT of work to redo Macintalk from the ground up, though there have been rumors of such (though the revamp would use digitized sound in a productive manner) for years... Hope this clears things up a bit. +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ + + Any thing I say may be taken as + + Leonard Rosenthol + fact, then again you might decide+ + President, LazerWare, inc. + that it really isn't, so you + + + never know, do you?? + + leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu + + + GEnie: MACgician + MacNET: MACgician + + Delphi: MACgician + + + + + +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+