The Sound Manager is a part of the classic

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, in

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. It is used to control the production and manipulation of

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s on Macintosh computers. The Sound Manager is also used by other parts of the Macintosh system software that produce sounds, such as the

Speech Manager 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 ...

and

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. It was replaced by

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External links

Apple Developer Connection: Sound Manager Documentation Chapter 2
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