Talk:PlainTalk

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Support
My iMac G3 (Rev B) supports the PlainTalk Microphone, but my iMac G5 does not. Any idea when this support was dropped? --Ahruman 14:43, 9 October, 2005 (UTC)

I don't know. But I believe the first Macintoshes compatible with the Plaintalk Microphones were the Centris 660av and Centris 840av. --Chris Murphy 14:23, 25 November, 2005 (PST)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:26, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

WALL-E spoiler
Do we really need information about AUTO's character in WALL-E here? It contains some information which may be seen as spoilers, and in my opinion, all it really needs to say is that the character uses MacInTalk for its voice. Flarn2006 (talk) 02:08, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Case
MacinTalk or MacInTalk? The article can't seem to decide. - dcljr (talk) 08:51, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Based on searching Apple's own website, it seems that it is properly "MacinTalk" with a lowercase "i". Additional occurrences with lowercase "i": the filenames of MacinTalk extensions seen in this screenshot, and a HyperCard stack by Nigel Perry. (Search results with the uppercase "I" usage seem to be in regard to it being credited in music and movie productions.) – BrianKrent (talk) 10:36, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Scope
The article discusses both speech synthesis and speech recognition. It should be either divided or retitled. (By the way, my edits were dictated on OS 10.9.) 184.18.45.118 (talk) 00:16, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Clickable reference?
Why are some references clickable and some not? 184.18.45.118 (talk) 00:25, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

radio
When we lived in Arcata,CA in the mid '90s, there was a radio DJ who was a Vietnam veteran who had lost his voice to Agent Orange, but he used MacinTalk (as he referred to it) to make his announcements. He used the standard 'Fred' voice, but he had it reading a highly customized script for a much more natural sound than we could easily get on our Macs at home. I don't remember if he was on KMUD or KHUM, but he had the afternoon show and was known as "Digital Dan, the DJ with a chip." I've been looking for references to him online, but I haven't found any sources of information about him. He was a delight to listen to and had a great sense of humor. Leeeoooooo (talk) 21:24, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Change article title?
When I do a Google search for 'Apple PlainTalk' I see that it is used exclusively to refer to the speech synthesis technology in much earlier versions of Mac OS. Apple's developer library calls the technology/feature Speech Synthesis in OS X. Perhaps that'd be a more suitable title. Or better yet,


 * Speech Synthesis in Mac OS

would encompass Mac OS 7 to OS X 10.10 (all versions of the OS that have speech synthesis).

The article also covers speech recognition. I agree with Talk:PlainTalk. If the article is not divided, a more possible title is

Wickedjargon (talk) 02:07, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Speech Synthesis and Recognition in Mac OS

In Music
Synthesised Mac voices are ALSO used in OMD’s Atomic Ranch: from their album, English Electric

Cuddy2977 (talk) 15:07, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

MacSpeak?
I am curious to whether MacSpeak, seen in the film Blank Check, is a variation of PlainTalk as there is a link to this article in Blank Check (film) and the film is mentioned under In Popular Culture in this article. I have tried searching for MacSpeak on Google and the results tend to turn out synthetic voice software from Apple. According to Macintosh Repository, MacSpeak is the original speech synthesizer app that Steve Jobs used to make the mac 128k demo. However, the article is short and it misspells synthesizer as "sythsizer". Considering Blank Check is a comedy film, MacSpeak could be a parody of PlainTalk or MacinTalk. Tk420 (talk) 09:49, 21 April 2022 (UTC)-edited

Hardware: Apple PlainTalk Microphone vs Apple Omnidirectional Microphone
The Apple PlainTalk Microphone, which used the extended proprietary 3.5 mm connector, came only in the "half-oval" form factor (see here). The round Apple microphone, known as the Apple Omnidirectional Microphone, preceded the PlainTalk and used only a standard 3.5 mm connector. It never used the extended connector, despite what this article currently says under the Hardware section. Illinois347 (talk) 03:53, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

What happened to "In Popular Culture"?
Why remove it?? It helped make MacinTalk/PlainTalk more recognizable. FlapjackRulez (talk) 21:51, 17 November 2023 (UTC)