Plus, id not be surprised if zarvox is trademarked by apple. If you ever want to use this texttospeech functionality, heres a list of the voices built into the system. Can recover any files like a magic as it said in its description, works on any file system of. As i started digging into the mac text to speech capability i learned that there are a number of voices built into mac osx, which is very cool. This voice synthesizer tool allows you to enter any text into the box and listen to a computer generated voice speaking the output. We will test software, fix hardware, program it, hack it, and generally take the 512k macintosh to its limits. Custom stickers, banner printing, custom decals zarvox. Zarvox offers a variety of material choices for your custom stickers. These voices appear frequently in popular culture, such as in the song satisfaction by benny benassi which uses fred and victoria, or auto in walle which uses a combination of ralph and zarvox. Macintosh plaintalk macintalk and system 7 text to speech. Choose from matte or gloss nonlaminated vinyl, uv laminated vehicle wrap vinyl, clear vinyl we print white ink and light colors on clear vinyl, or high tack vinyl for oem devices, powder coated surfaces or low energy surfaces such as plastic. It is a novelty voice which can be chosen as the default voice in the speech control panel in classic mac os, and system preferences in mac os x now known as macos. You may create an account on the new wiki during the public beta stage and begin editing. It utilizes apples speech synthesizer technology, which enables it to speak text out loud and save spoken text as audio files either.
Macintosh plaintalk macintalk and system 7 text to speech voices. Macintalk was developed by joseph katz and mark barton who later founded softvoice, inc. Gotta love the flood of crap apps put up on macupdate by this developer. Mac text to speech voices mac os x text to speech using. Vox machina is a speech synthesizer program for mac os x. Using software called macintalk, it announced itself to the world by saying, hello. Macintalk used direct access to the original macintosh sound hardware and all attempts to license the source code by apple to update it for newer macs failed. It speaks with a robotic monotone voice, making it sound like a robot. Accurate with natural voices, multilingual include english, french, spanish, chinese, japanese. This wiki is the successor to the fandomwikia version. Mac computers come with several voices included as part of the macintalk system. The mac 512k blog chronicles the macintosh 512k and my projects with it.