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Dismiss Join GitHub today. GitHub is home to over 50 million developers working together to host and review code, manage projects, and build software together. 2) In the Family Guy quotation that Stewie is referencing Talking Moose or just the Mac speech function. Question has been answered, it isn't, and anonymous IP 143.92.1.33 correctly removed it. 3) The relationship between Talking Moose voice, cartoon, and types of quips, and Bullwinkle seem close. The Talking Moose is an animated talking utility for the Apple Macintosh. It was created in 1986 by Canadian programmer Steven Halls. It is the first animated talking agent on a personal computer and featured a moose that would appear at periodic intervals with some joke or witticism. The moose would also comment on system events and user actions and could speak what a user typed using the. Talking cat free download - Talking Tom Cat 2 for Windows 10, Talking Dictionary, English-Hindi Talking Dictionary, and many more programs. Feb 10, 2013.

The Talking Moose is an animated talking utility for the Apple Macintosh. It was created in 1986 by Canadian programmer Steven Halls.^[1] It is the first animated talking agent on a personal computer and featured a moose that would appear at periodic intervals with some joke or witticism.^[2] The moose would also comment on system events and user actions^[2] and could speak what a user typed using the Moose Proof desk accessory.

Design[edit]

According to Halls, the original purpose of the moose was to make use of the Mac's Macintalktext-to-speech engine in a novel manner. A Doonesbury strip in which the characters were commented on by a talking computer provided inspiration, and Halls found that a moose head with antlers was recognizable even on low-resolution computer screens.^[1]

The moose was the first facially animated talking agent with lip synchronization and it became the seed idea for future talking agents, such as Clippy the paperclip in Microsoft Windows,^[1]Bonzi Buddy, and Prody Parrot from CreativeSoundBlaster.

The Talking Moose used Apple's Macintalk software, the first version of which famously made the original 'Never trust a computer you can't lift' speech at the Macintosh launch in 1984. Apple's development of Macintalk had petered out and they granted Halls permission to use, and continue refining, the software for free. Halls did not just improve the fluidity of the speech and the reliability of the interpretation but gave the moose a library of comedic observations and wisecracks which gave it a distinctive character.

Around 1990, a version of the Talking Moose software was commercially published by Baseline Publishing.^[2] This commercial release of the Talking Moose included color graphics and additional software that allowed users to create and edit phrases to be spoken.^[3] A stripped-down version of the Baseline release of the Talking Moose was distributed with the Bob LeVitus book Stupid Mac Tricks in 1989.^[2][4]

In the 1990s, the Moose was rewritten by Uli Kusterer under the name Uli's Moose - for which he later obtained Steve Halls' blessing. This Moose was included in Bob LeVitus' iMac (and iBook) book 'I Didn't Know You Could Do That'.

Moose Versions[edit]

Version 1.0 of the Talking Moose was released in 1986 by Steve Halls.^[1]

Version 2.0 was released in 1987, and ran on Macintosh systems 6.0.4 - 7.1. The Macintalk voice used for the Moose was 'Fred'.

Around 1990, Baseline Publishing commercially published the talking moose,^[2] and released version 4, introducing new characters from a 'Cartoon Carnival' supposedly run by the titular ungulate.

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Uli Kusterer - the next author of the moose - got rid of the cartoon carnival, and worked more in the spirit of the original moose, releasing new versions starting at 1.0, which supported Mac OS 7.1 - 9.2. These were released initially on CompuServe, and later on the internet. He also developed the first OS X native version (v 3.0). The latest Macintosh version of the Moose (v3.5.7) works with all versions of OS X, 10.3 through 10.7, and includes Universal Binaries.

From January 8, 2009, The Talking Moose has been posting periodic comments to a Twitter account. The account has since been banned.^[4]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdKahney, Leander (2001-08-13). 'Hey Mac, the Moose is Loose'. Wired. Retrieved 2015-07-07.
2. ^ ^abcdeLewis, Peter H. (1990-11-07). ''Stupid Mac Tricks': computer silliness'. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2015-07-07.
3. ^LeVitus, Bob (1990). Stupid Mac Tricks. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. p. 29. ISBN0-201-57046-7.
4. ^ ^abEngst, Adam C. (2009-01-14). 'Talking Moose Joins Twitter'. TidBITS. Retrieved 2015-07-07.

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I'm a 'Talking Moose' advocate, it being a program I used to introduce new people to computers who were fearful. An important part of what it was doing was reflecting stray thoughts going through the mind of the new computer user. (And many users were using a computer for the first time.) The dopey voice still brings a smile. It would be nice if someone had a quote from a reviewer about the psychological effect.

1) In general, the article needs more citations. I realize from my experience that much of the article is true (or part of popular legend), but that's not the Wiki way. So I've added a citation tag.

2) In the Family Guy quotation that Stewie is referencing Talking Moose or just the Mac speech function. Question has been answered, it isn't, and anonymous IP 143.92.1.33 correctly removed it.

3) The relationship between Talking Moose voice, cartoon, and types of quips, and Bullwinkle seem close. Was there any comment about this? Is this the reason that the animation changed to one looking less like Bullwinkle?

4) Without being at all sure, I was under the impression that Clippy was much later, and that there was some other primary factor in its creation. Note that Office Assistant does not mention Talking Moose. There's a story here, because the quote in the Office Assistant article from Smithsonian wasn't just the opinion outside Microsoft. The reason for it failing was precisely because it had a different purpose than Talking Moose.

5) I've changed the sentence calling Talking Moose 'distressingly cheap humor', because that's quite subjective.

Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 13:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

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'In general, the article needs more citations. I realize from my experience that much of the article is true (or part of popular legend), but that's not the Wiki way. So I've added a citation tag.'Agreed94.169.34.2 (talk) 19:49, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Being original research, this can't go in the article, but when I asked about a relation to Bullwinkle, Steve Halls maintained plausible deniability. 96.52.203.161 (talk) 18:58, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Is there any citation for the claim that Steve Halls helped to 'refine' the Macintalk software itself? 71.252.168.126 (talk) 01:10, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

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