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Tue, 25 Jan 2005
Apple turns 21
Found in someone's attic in Germany a video found here was released today introducing the first Mac, 21 years ago. Chariots of Fire plays in the backround as a vector art program, a work processor, a spread sheet, smooth type display (from Postscript Type1 fonts, btw), source code, bitmap photo images, a chess game... And finally a computer generated voice introduces itself. In one portion, the computer says in regards to mainframes, "do not trust a computer you can not lift." lol The program used to create this rad voice over (aka Speech Synthesis Manager) still ships with the OS. If you have a Mac, try this:
The voice should be your default voice on your preferences. To see a list of all voices available: $ ls /System\ Folder/Extensions/Voices/ Agnes Bubbles Princess Agnes, high quality Cellos Ralph Albert Deranged Trinoids Bad News Fred Victoria Bahh Good News Victoria, high quality Bells Hysterical Whisper Boing Junior Zarvox Bruce Kathy Bruce, high quality Pipe Organ If you 'man say' you will see the the synopsis as say [-v voice] [-o out.aiff] [-f file | string ...]. So: $ say -v 'Bruce' 'do not trust a computer you can not lift' This so reproduce the voice you hear in the video. Mac and Cheesy, eh.
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