phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (03/02/89)
I am writing a program on the Mac which will be used by children between
the ages of 8 and 11 (or so). At the moment I'm using MacinTalk to explain
what I want them to do, and to warn them of any problems etc. I heard on
the net a while ago that Apple doesn't support MacinTalk, and I discovered
that the Talking Moose (which I also use - 'cos children find it fun) did
not want to work on a Mac II (it went shy - it appeared but didn't speak).
My problem then is I would like to use speech in my program, but there's
a heck of a lot of it - Macintalk was perfect because it took up so little
space. If I use digitized speech I can't use so much, or I have to resort
to tricks (like digitizing each word and putting them together into the
sentences that I want). Does anyone have any (good) solutions to all of
this? This program is begin written with the help of the University
Psychology Dept. and the people there are of the opinion that speech is
essential in this program (so suggestions such as "forget it..." are no good!).
Does anyone at Apple know of a replacement for MacinTalk that will appear?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
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