sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown) (06/08/91)
Today, I receieved a special purchase offer to get ByteWorks' Speech Toolkit disk. Does anyone know how this software compares to the speech synthesizer used in Math Talk and Smooth Talker? My opinion was that the speech from these programs was, at best, lousy. Now, it could have been the implementation that was weak rather than the programmer's tools themselves. I have no way of knowing that... I'm interested in the Speech Toolkit, but I want to 'see' (or hear) before I buy. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Stephen Brown Toronto, Canada | | Internet: sb@pnet91.cts.com UUCP: utzoo!pnet91!sb | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Apple II Forever !!! | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Like my new .signature. ? Too bad. | +---------------------------------------------------------+
mock@iris.ucdavis.edu (Kenrick J. Mock) (06/09/91)
The Byte Works speech toolkit is IDENTICAL to the First Byte speech
tools. These are the same tools they used in the Mad-Libs and talking
math programs. First Byte sold or licensed the tools for Byte Works
to distribute. The only difference is a new tool has been added, tool
53, so that the speech tools work in GSOS.
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GEnie : K.MOCK Net : mock@iris.ucdavis.edu, mock@alderon.lanl.govdzimmerman@gnh-tff.cts.com (Daniel Zimmerman) (06/14/91)
> From: sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown) > Subject: ByteWorks Speech Toolkit > Date: 8 Jun 91 06:30:04 GMT > > Today, I receieved a special purchase offer to get ByteWorks' Speech Toolkit > disk. Does anyone know how this software compares to the speech synthesizer > used in Math Talk and Smooth Talker? My opinion was that the speech from > these programs was, at best, lousy. Now, it could have been the > implementation that was weak rather than the programmer's tools themselves. I > have no way of knowing that... > > I'm interested in the Speech Toolkit, but I want to 'see' (or hear) before I > buy. > > +---------------------------------------------------------+ > | Stephen Brown Toronto, Canada | > | Internet: sb@pnet91.cts.com UUCP: utzoo!pnet91!sb | > +---------------------------------------------------------+ > | Apple II Forever !!! | > +---------------------------------------------------------+ > | Like my new .signature. ? Too bad. | > +---------------------------------------------------------+ As far as I know, the Byte Works' "Talking Tools" are EXACTLY THE SAME as the old SmoothTalker tools. I believe that Byte Works obtained the license for them, maybe touched them up a bit, stuck them in a new package and offered them to us.. They didn't even bother to convert them to User Toolsets (Mike Westerfield posted on America Online that they were System Toolsets - I thought System Toolsets had to come from Apple...?). I don't have them, but I don't know, after having heard the SmoothTalker tools, if I would pay for them... (I may, since they are selling it at a big discount for owners of other ORCA products).. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel M. Zimmerman InterNet - dzimmerman@gnh-tff.cts.com TFF Enterprises America Online - Surak TFF CompuServe - 76407,2246 "Learn reason above all. Learn clear thought; learn to know what is from what seems to be, and what you wish to be. This is the key to everything: the truth of reality, the reality of truth. What IS will set you free." - Surak Of Vulcan