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[edit] Which Year did the Mac start to Speak?

What was the year that the Macintosh finally came with speech synthesis software as part of its firmware, or a speech synthesizing chip routinely integrated into its hardware makeup? The Amiga had a little bit of speech capability in 1985/1986.

The Amiga's was similar to the Mac's in that time frame - third party software speech synthesis. It wasn't actually built into the Mac's system software until, I believe, the "AV" Macs, like the Quadra 840AV, which had a DSP chip on the motherboard. The first Power Macs, the 6100/7100/8100, had speech synthesis and recognition as a prominent feature. Tempshill 10:33, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Caroline Rose

The lead writer and editor of Inside Mac was Caroline Rose, and if someone can find the citation, there was an interesting interview with the coders, stating that the way the original Mac APIs were developed is that the programmers wrote them, then Caroline Rose tried to document them, and this led to extensive revision of the APIs as, apparently, she raised many questions: Why isn't this a pointer? What happens if that data structure doesn't exist yet? Why is this impossible to explain? This article would be the place to put anything we can find about this interesting process. Tempshill 10:33, 26 June 2007 (UTC)