Sound To Slurp

Apple didn't release its speech synthesis in the mp2000, but did release voice recording. My program and recommended hardware will get you some of the features of the new mp2000 in case you are waiting for the 2010 with more speech recognition like I am. I made a little program to make all the newton message pads be able to talk just a little (I may work out a crude phonetics newtonscript plugin later). You may recall they didn't support pict 2's and after I did they came up with newton press which I enjoyed pict 2's in. I hope I maybe inspire them again. My tiny program takes a system 7 file, the kind you get by dragging an alert from the system or convert from a simplesound recording with freeware SoundApp 2.2.3, and turns it into a slurpee file that can be put into the newton sound soup with newton running slurpee. To see that the sound works, you might use bitsound, freeware available on Steve Weyer's pages. Well, now I've gotten "line in" for <$1000. What about lineout? Used radio shack telephone pickup on tiny newton speaker (Radio Shack Cat. No. 44-533 B with 1/8 " miniplug). About $6. Radio Shack also has $10 tiny amplifier-speaker for phone pickups that works admirably with above (if you set the volume down a bit to miss processor noise), Catalogue # 277-1008C. I continue to develope a gps navigation program for the trimble scoutmaster connecting with NMEA sentences. Few people own such an expensive gps unit, so I am, so far, my only beta tester. Speech recognition and synthesis will go nicely with my program.