Shit Talker Phoenix is the resurrection of a classic application. Back in the ’90s, I used a hilarious little Visual Basic program called Shit Talker. I must admit, I wish the name was more polite, what more can I say?

Anyway, after not noticing any rebirths of “Shit Talker by Jaundice” I decided that it was time for me to take some initiative on that front.

World, may I present to you Shit Talker Phoenix!

At present this application is only available for Mac OS X.

If enough people out there express interest in there being a Windows or Linux build, please let me know and I’ll see what I can do about that. There’s certainly been some reasonable Windows interest – I’m thinkin’ on it, but every comment on the subject helps motivate me to allocate some time to the task.

Please let me know what you all think. I’ve tested it a reasonable amount, so I don’t really expect to hear too many problems. I’ve only tried it on various differing versions of Leopard. Though I set the project to build for Tiger, I haven’t tried it on Tiger yet.

Download

You can download STP here.

A Brief History

I wrote this application over the course of two summers. It actually wasn’t much by way of development time, but pretty well the only times I worked on it was while I was locked up in a car on an endless road trip with no internet access. Thus, as it stands, I figure that I’ll likely keep working on it when similar circumstances hit me.

I wrote it just by loading up a sample voice synth code snippet Apple provided with their XCode Development tools. I looked at the key lines that setup the Synth engine and made it yap and then figured out how to make a busy UI that could pass back hidden custom text messages to the synth engine when pressed. So it’s a really simple application and the brains all exist in what’s already given to you in Mac OS – all this thing really is, is a freak-show handy interface.

Swag

Also feel free to check out the Swag Shop which includes the STP shirt. I created the STP logo on my tablet using GIMP!

Feature Requests

Go ahead and post about any feature requests or bug issues that you may encounter.