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- DylanTalk by Dean Yu & Fred Monroe
- A hack for MacHack 1992.
- © 1992 FGM Enterprises. All rights reserved.
-
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-
- OK, no more fancy (and rigged) demos. This Read Me file contains
- the straight scoop on DylanTalk, and should always accompany the
- DylanTalk extension and sources.
-
- What’s DylanTalk?
-
- DylanTalk is a System 7 extension that will speak the text in modal dialogs,
- and the title of controls when they are clicked. A system menu (either
- a tornado or Casper with a slash through it, depending on whether Fred
- remembered to put in the new icons or not) in the Finder allows the user
- to select the voice from a list of personalities. (Dean’s personality is
- the best developed for a straight voice, but the other voices are fun to
- show off.) The DylanTalk extension should go in the System Folder or
- Extensions folder. The personality files should go in the DylanTalk
- Preferences folder, which goes in the Preferences folder.
-
- What’s included?
-
- The full source code for the DylanTalk extension can be found in the
- DylanTalk source folder. This source shows various sundry stuff as
- what we patched to start talking, how we parse sentences, and how the
- personalities are switched. Guess which parts Dean wrote, and which
- parts Fred wrote. It’s pretty obvious.
-
- A built version of DylanTalk and the personality files are in the Built
- folder.
-
- The SILIE folder contains the source for a totally useless application
- with gratuitous graphics. The only reason it’s included is because it’s
- got some pretty cool level sampling code. The comments in this file are
- lacking at best, and probably non-existent in most areas, since Fred whipped
- this guy together in about 4 hours. If anyone’s wondering, SILIE stands for
- Simple Inflection and Lexical Inference Engine, and it’s pronounced like
- “silly”.
-
- Thanks!
-
- A big thanks to Don Louv for rendering us the gratuitous but really cool
- graphics. Jim Reekes was an invaluable SmartFriend™ to get us through
- level metering and for preventing Fred from writing any unnecessary
- double buffering code.
-
- Miscellaneous stuff
-
- All the files contained in this package may be freely distributed, but
- must be accompanied by this Read Me. Feel free to use anything you find
- interesting in your own project, but you’d better give Dean and Fred
- some credit somewhere. (Dean likes to collect cool shirts, and Fred needs
- some furniture.)
-
- We’ve both learned that giving out ways to contact us means we’ll get
- strange e-mail and phone calls. So we’re not going to tell you where we
- are this time. This will be the only release of DylanTalk, so please don’t
- ask for bug fixes or new features.
-
- Ann Arbor, MI
- June 19th, 1992