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PlainTalk

PlainTalk is the collective name for several speech synthesis (MacinTalk) and speech recognition technologies developed by Apple Inc. In 1990, Apple invested in speech recognition technology, hiring many researchers in the field. The result was "PlainTalk", released with the AV models in the Macintosh Quadra series from 1993. It was made a standard…

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PlainTalk

Nodes58
Edges57
Triples29
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.034483
Components1

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PlainTalk

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related to Speech recognition · 17
PlainTalk → After, Although, Apple, Apple's, AV, Casper, Centris, Computer, DSP, In Mac OS, It, Lion, Mac OS, Macintosh, OS, PowerPC Macintoshes, Quadra
related to Hardware · 10
PlainTalk → Apple, Apple PlainTalk Microphone, AV, Both, CRT, It, Macintosh LC, Macintosh Quadra, Performa, The
is a · 1
PlainTalk → collective name for several speech synthesis

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speech apple os 10 mac macintalk recognition macintosh voices system synthesis macos available used voice text made would name text-to-speech

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PlainTalkis acollective name for several speech synthesis0.90text
Acapela Group to supply voices for other languagesinstance ofrelying on third-party suppliers0.80text
PlainTalkrelated to HardwareApple0.60section
PlainTalkrelated to HardwareApple PlainTalk Microphone0.60section
PlainTalkrelated to HardwareThe0.60section
PlainTalkrelated to HardwareMacintosh LC0.60section
PlainTalkrelated to HardwarePerforma0.60section
PlainTalkrelated to HardwareIt0.60section
PlainTalkrelated to HardwareCRT0.60section
PlainTalkrelated to HardwareAV0.60section
PlainTalkrelated to HardwareMacintosh Quadra0.60section
PlainTalkrelated to HardwareBoth0.60section

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