Klatt's History of Speech Synthesis, Part D

Klatt's 'History of speech synthesis'
Archive of audio clips.

Sound files and descriptions from Dennis H. Klatt (1987),
"Review of text-to-speech conversion for English"
J. Acous. Soc. Amer. 82, 737-793

Part D: Fully automatic text-to-speech conversion

24. The first full text-to-speech system, done in Japan by Noriko Umeda et al., 1968.

25. The first Bell Laboratories text-to-speech system, by Cecil Coker, Noriko Umeda, and Cathrine Browman, 1973.

26. The Haskins Laboratories text-to-speech system, 1973.

27. The Kurzweil reading machine for the blind, Raymond Kurzweil, 1976.

28. The inexpensive Votrax Type-n-Talk system, by Richard Gagnon, 1978.

29. The Echo low-cost diphone concatenation system, about 1982.

30. The MIT MITalk system, by Jonathan Allen, Sheri Hunnicutt, and Dennis Klatt, 1979.

31. The multi-language Infovox system, by Rolf Carlson, Bjorn Granström and Sheri Hunnicut, 1982.

32. The Speech Plus Inc. "Prose-2000" commercial system, 1982.

33. The Klattalk system, by Dennis Klatt of MIT, which formed the basis for Digital Equipment Corporation's DECtalk commercial system, 1983.

34. The ATT Bell Laboratories text-to-speech system, 1985.

35. Several of the DECtalk voices.

(a) 'Perfect Paul'

(b) 'Beautiful Betty'

(c) 'Huge Harry'

(d) 'Kit the Kid'

(e) 'Whispering Wendy'

36. DECtalk speaking at about 300 words/minute.

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Klatt's 'History of speech synthesis'
Archive of audio clips.

Sound files and descriptions from Dennis H. Klatt (1987),
"Review of text-to-speech conversion for English"
J. Acous. Soc. Amer. 82, 737-793

Part D: Fully automatic text-to-speech conversion
24. The first full text-to-speech system, done in Japan by Noriko Umeda et al., 1968.
25. The first Bell Laboratories text-to-speech system, by Cecil Coker, Noriko Umeda, and Cathrine Browman, 1973.
26. The Haskins Laboratories text-to-speech system, 1973.
27. The Kurzweil reading machine for the blind, Raymond Kurzweil, 1976.
28. The inexpensive *Votrax Type-n-Talk* system, by Richard Gagnon, 1978.
29. The *Echo* low-cost diphone concatenation system, about 1982.
30. The MIT *MITalk* system, by Jonathan Allen, Sheri Hunnicutt, and Dennis Klatt, 1979.
31. The multi-language *Infovox* system, by Rolf Carlson, Bjorn Granström and Sheri Hunnicut, 1982.
32. The Speech Plus Inc. *"Prose-2000"* commercial system, 1982.
33. The *Klattalk* system, by Dennis Klatt of MIT, which formed the basis for Digital Equipment Corporation's *DECtalk* commercial system, 1983.
34. The ATT Bell Laboratories text-to-speech system, 1985.
35. Several of the *DECtalk* voices.
(a) 'Perfect Paul'
(b) 'Beautiful Betty'
(c) 'Huge Harry'
(d) 'Kit the Kid'
(e) 'Whispering Wendy'
36. DECtalk speaking at about 300 words/minute.

Klatt's 'History of speech synthesis' Archive of audio clips.

Sound files and descriptions from Dennis H. Klatt (1987), "Review of text-to-speech conversion for English" J. Acous. Soc. Amer. 82, 737-793

Klatt's 'History of speech synthesis'
Archive of audio clips.

Sound files and descriptions from Dennis H. Klatt (1987),
"Review of text-to-speech conversion for English"
J. Acous. Soc. Amer. 82, 737-793