Editing PlainTalk (section)

====MacinTalk 3, Pro====
MacinTalk 3 introduced a great variety of voices. Apart from the standard adult voices "Ralph", "Fred" and "Kathy", and children's voices like "Princess" (renamed "Superstar" in [[macOS Ventura]]) and "Junior", various novelty voices were included, like "Whisper", "Zarvox" (a robotic voice with melodic background sounds, with a similar voice called "Trinoids" also included), "Cellos" (a voice that sang its text to an [[Edvard Grieg]] [[In the Hall of the Mountain King|tune]], otherwise known as "In the Hall of the Mountain King" with similarly singing voices like "Good News", "Bad News", "Pipe Organ"), "Albert" (a hoarse-sounding voice), "Bells", "Boing", "Bubbles", and others.

Each of these voices came with its own example text, that would be spoken when one hit the "Test" button in the Speech control panel. Some would just say their name, language and the version of MacinTalk they were introduced with. Others would say [[humour|funny]] things, like "I sure like being inside this fancy computer", "I have a frog in my throat... No, I mean a real frog!", "We must rejoice in this morbid voice" (a [[parody]] of [[hymn#Western church|Western church hymnody with organ music]]), or "The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of a fast approaching train". These voices are still in [[macOS]] today. (A few of the voice names and their test texts were changed with [[macOS Ventura]], and then all their test texts were changed in [[macOS Sonoma]] to "Hello, my name is [voice name].")

With the increase in computing power that the AV Macs and PowerPC based Macintoshes provided, Apple could afford to increase the quality of the synthesis. MacinTalk 3 required a 33 [[Megahertz|MHz]] [[Motorola 68030|68030 processor]] and MacinTalk Pro required a [[Motorola 68040|68040]] or better and at least 1 [[megabyte|MB]] of [[Random Access Memory|RAM]]. Each synthesizer supported a different set of voices.