ramaley@csli.Stanford.EDU (Alan Ramaley) (07/26/90)
I'm working on a talking text editor, using Macintalk and Think C 4.0 It'd be nice to let speech be interruptable, i.e., you're reading a sentence, you realize it's not the one you want, and you move on. But in Macintalk, once it starts, you can't stop it. We've found that you often want to abort the speech while it's been asked to speak just one word. We can crank the rate up to 6 billion, but then it sounds like a toon. Does anyone know: 1) How to interrupt Macintalk 2) If there's a better software speech synthesizer out there, and where I could get it. I know Berkeley systems has this package called outSPOKEN, and they've tweaked Macintalk to make it interruptable. Any Berkeley people out there? Want to send me source code (dream on, dream on)? If you have any ideas, tell me. Feel free to assume I'm really stupid, and need to be led through things. Thanks. --Alan