SaySynth: A Brief History of Speaking Machines

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Author: evakhoury

Date: 6/1/2026

Article Summary:
A brief history of speaking machines, from mechanical to generative AI, and the development of SaySynth, a synthesizer built on top of macOS's text-to-speech framework.