Talking HangMan
Volume Number: 2
Issue Number: 4
Column Tag: Basic School
Play the Talking HangMan Game! 
By Dave Kelly, Engineer, MacTutor Editorial Board
This month I would like to thank Clear Lake Research for kindly sending me a
copy of their SpeechLib Library. [Available through MacTutor's Technical Software
Store. -Ed] As computers become smarter and smarter, we are sure to find those that
will do many of the same tasks that humans do. Already, I get sales recordings on my
telephone from some computer that goes through a list of numbers and presents their
sales pitch. We can't even comprehend how far computers will take us in the future. In
fact, in 1979 when I bought my first Apple ][+, I was thrilled to have that much
capability. I never thought that computers would become much different, until
Macintosh came along.
I've seen a large variety of speech synthesizer cards for the Apple ][. When they
first came out, the speech was hardly recognizable. I've seen good ones and bad ones.
When I got my Macintosh, I was excited that the Mac had a built in synthesizer, however,
I was disappointed to find that the software to program the synthesizer had not been