The initial Macintosh text-to-speech engine, MacinTalk (named by Denise Chandler), was used by Apple in the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh in which the computer announced itself to the world (and poked fun at the weight of an IBM computer). While it was incorporated into the Macintosh's operating system, it was not officially supported by Apple (though programming information was made available through an Apple Technical Note). MacinTalk was developed by Joseph Katz and Mark Barton who later founded SoftVoice, Inc. which currently markets TTS engines for Windows, Linux and embedded platforms. Macintalk used direct access to the original Macintosh sound hardware and all attempts to license the source code by Apple to update it for newer Macs failed. [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.mac.system/BOekHR6KGvg/-_OBQaXQAeMJ