Speech Manager
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The Speech Manager, in the classic Mac OS
, is a part of the operating system
used to convert text into sound
data to play through a sound output device
such as a speaker
. The Speech Manager's interaction with the Sound Manager
is transparent to a software application.
Mac OS
Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...
, is a part of the operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
used to convert text into sound
Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...
data to play through a sound output device
Output device
An output device is any piece of computer hardware equipment used to communicate the results of data processing carried out by an information processing system to the outside world....
such as a speaker
Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker is an electroacoustic transducer that produces sound in response to an electrical audio signal input. Non-electrical loudspeakers were developed as accessories to telephone systems, but electronic amplification by vacuum tube made loudspeakers more generally useful...
. The Speech Manager's interaction with the Sound Manager
Sound Manager
The Sound Manager is a part of the classic Apple Macintosh operating system, in Mac OS. It is used to control the production and manipulation of sounds on Macintosh computers. The Sound Manager is also used by other parts of the Macintosh system software that produce sounds, such as the Speech...
is transparent to a software application.