December 20th, 1994.  Trillium Sound Research Inc. is proud to
present some preliminary results of our ongoing research in speech
synthesis.  In the spirit of Christmas, we have synthesized a chorus
singing one verse of the Burgundian carol "Pat-a-pan".  This sound
file can be played on any NeXT computer, or on any computer running
NEXTSTEP with an appropriate sound card and driver.

The music was synthesized entirely from scratch using software
tools; no recordings whatever were used.  Although these tools were
designed to create natural-sounding synthetic speech, they are
flexible enough to create synthetic song.

The files:

         ChristmasTeaser.tar
         ChristmasTeaser.README

have been submitted to the following ftp sites:

         ftp://sonata.cc.purdue.edu/pub/next/submissions/
         ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/


The tar file (4.2 MB) contains the following:

1) Pat-a-pan.snd:  A synthetic chorus of the old French
   carol "Pat-a-pan". (4 MB)
2) helloMale.snd:  synthetic "hello" spoken by a large
   male. (30 KB)
3) helloFemale.snd:  "hello" spoken with a synthesized
   women's voice. (66 KB)
4) helloChild.snd:  synthetic "hello" spoken by a large
   child. (54 KB)

Happy listening, and Merry Christmas!!



CONTACT INFORMATION

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