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- From: minow@apple.com (Martin Minow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Apple has patent on female synthesized voice?
- Message-ID: <minow-150792163429@kip-6.apple.com>
- Date: 16 Jul 92 22:03:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: kip-6.minow-150792163429
- References: <2A52626A.3A1@deneva.sdd.trw.com> <1992Jul2.222119.17967@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Jul2.235507.26635@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Jul6.065600.1819@ms.uky.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul6.065600.1819@ms.uky.edu>, sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
- wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Jul2.235507.26635@ccu.umanitoba.ca> vnelson@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- (Gerald Vernon Nelson) writes:
- > :This sounds unlikely. The first female synthesized voice I can recall is
- > :found in National Semiconductor's Posi-Talker. This was a point of sale
- > :price announcer. This was in supermarkets in the early 80's, 2 to 3 years
- > :before the introduction of the Mac.
- >
- Posi-Talker was, if I remember correctly, a "stored voice" synthesizer --
- similar to the telephone company's "the number you have dialed, ..."
- system.
- I do not believe it was a text-to-speech system.
-
- DECtalk, released in January 1984, was the first commercially-available
- text-to-speech synthesizer with both male and female voices. DECtalk also
- had a child's voice and, eventually, an "older" voice. DECtalk's inventor,
- Dennis Klatt, published extensively on the algorithms needed to synthesize
- human speech. You might look for his articles in JASA.
-
- Martin Minow
- minow@apple.com
- The above does not represent the position of Apple Computer, Inc.
-