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Catching Up with the Voice of Macintosh

Posted by timothy on from the just-some-dude dept.

klktrk writes "In an article from TidBITS, Jeff Carlson interviews the man who inspired the 'Fred' voice known to early Macintosh uses, and fans of Radiohead."

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  1. Re:Is this a new record? by andfarm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    See this documentation on phoneme mode. There's a way to make TTS (text-to-speech) take input as phonemes instead of words: for example, try "[[inpt PHON]]mAYkAXl".

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  2. Re:Victoria by mbbac · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why doesn't Apple have any higher quality Macintosh voices in Mac OS X? If you look around on the Web at AT&T and other places you'll find very high quality voice synthesis (and I'm sure you get them on your voice mail quite a bit too). Modern Macs have more than enough power to generate something more realistic than what we've got now.

    Anyone? Anyone?

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