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.
Paul M. Sheldon" <psheldon@utdallas.edu>
