Eliza

SPEECH, SPEECH MANAGER, PLAINTALK, ELIZA, AI, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DEEP PLATINUM. Enjoy a rousing conversation with your Mac. Eliza will play the part of a psychologist, conducting an open-ended clinical interview. As the patient, you can get Eliza's opinions and advice on a wide range of subjects. Eliza has a large vocabulary and the ability to formulate a virtually unlimited number of responses. ...and if you have Apple's Speech Manager (PlainTalk), you can actually watch and listen as Eliza responds, making this an excellent demonstration of the Speech Manager's capabilities! Version 6.0 allows you to choose the gender of your therapist (male or female "talking head"). I say "Eliza" sounds like a male name, however the rest of the English-speaking world disagrees. You decide. Also, this version features several significant improvements in the response algorithms. Eliza can function as a bare bones text editor. (For a full-featured text editor, try my program Tex-Edit Plus!)