Re: Apple Speech Synthesis

[be946@freenet.carleton.ca (Simon C.Hall)]

Doug Browning <wpg750@mb.imag.net> wrote:

> There used to be PosiTalker (Data Terminal Systems), I believe it had an Apple
> version. It was intended for use in point of sale applications, so it had the
> appropriate vocabulary for that application. Originally, it had a male Asian
> voice, but later versions used a Hollywood actress for the voice to make it
> more acceptable to the American market. DTS also used the same technology in
> its cash registers at the time...
> 
> NFreak wrote:
> 
> > Hey-
> > I think once there was a speech syntheziser add on for the Apple II line
> > called apple talk or applespeech or something... does anybody know anything
> > about this and where I could get one...
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Doug Browning
> dougbrow@mb.imag.net
> www.mb.imag.net/~wpg750

SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) is a very common one. Use's a very simple
small interface card with a AMP and a DAC, use's software for the voice,
sound very much like the Mac's Voices/Stephen Hawking's voice (:
I've only ever sen a DOS 3.3 version...Is there a ProDos version ???

regards

Jim


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