MacinTalk

Author:

Apple

Publisher:

Apple Inc.

Type:

System

Category: Accessibility , Drivers & Hardware Support , Extension , Music & Sound

Shared by: MR

On: 2014-04-14 23:09:13

Updated by: DisketteMeowsik

On: 2023-07-31 23:00:56

Other contributors: that-ben

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Year: 1985

What is MacinTalk?

MacinTalk is Apple's text-to-speech, or speech synthesizer, extension that allows Mac documents to "talk" their text using a range of computerized voices.

MacinTalk (v1.0.2) was relased on April 15, 1985 and works on Mac OS 1.x to Mac OS 6.x

MacinTalk 2 and MacinTalk Pro (both v1.2) were released in 1994 for Mac OS 6 or 7 and were almost immediately made obsolete by MacinTalk 3.

MacinTalk 3 (v1.4) was released in 1995 and became Apple's TTS standard until OSX and is part of Mac OS 7, 8 and 9.

Download MacinTalk for Mac

macintalk3.sit

(463.25 KiB / 474.37 KB)
Macintalk 3 (v1.4 / 1995) / compressed w/ Stuffit

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2014-04-14 /

2017-02-26 /

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MacinTalk-131.sit

(95.57 KiB / 97.87 KB)
/ compressed w/ Stuffit

302 /

2015-08-08 /

bc462002bc88fbea60f6cbc0b8e87356ec001ff8 /

MacinTalk_2_(1.2).sit

(69.06 KiB / 70.72 KB)
Macintalk 2 (v1.2 / 1994) / compressed w/ Stuffit

653 /

2017-02-26 /

3234ea351c29006819152ce5215c6f58f95f9bb6 /

MacinTalk_Pro.sea.bin

(507 KiB / 519.17 KB)
MacinTalk Pro (v1.2 / 1994) / Binary encoded, use Stuffit Expander

471 /

2017-02-26 /

172dc8a0eef4f3828a12fc00632ba1b18dd345a9 /

MacinTalk_1.dsk

(409.46 KiB / 419.28 KB)
Macintalk (v1.0.2 / 1985) / DSK SD floppy disk image for vMac / DSK image

1273 /

2017-02-26 /

411152e9adda2f01409144f21a1bcc67eda25aa1 /

MacInTalk2.cpt_.hqx

(24.54 KiB / 25.13 KB)
/ BinHex'd, use Stuffit Expander

181 /

2021-12-06 /

0517bfe2e859baf8a7045f06703888debb41c9fd /

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 6.0 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K

Mac OS 6.x - Mac OS 9.2.2

Note: MacinTalk (1985) is only good for Mac OS 6 or lower and is archived here because a very few and old apps/games require this version to work and sometimes it did not come bundled with them. If you use Mac OS 7 or higher, there is no point in installing any of those MacinTalk versions at all, since MacinTalk 3 ships on the Mac OS installation CD's.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II