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- From: minow@apple.com (Martin Minow)
- Subject: Re: information about DECtalk
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- Message-ID: <minow-101192102931@minow.apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:41:49 GMT
- References: <ulrike.721401334@gmd.de>
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- In article <ulrike.721401334@gmd.de>, ulrike@gmd.de (Ulrike Bauer) wrote:
- >
- > Please, could ANYBODY, who knows something about it, email me which
- > articles exist about DECtalk, ...
-
- The DECtalk documentation (your local Dec office might be able to find a
- copy) has a bibliography and summary description. From memory, there are
- several sources for more information.
-
- -- Dennis Klatt, who invented the technology used in DECtalk, published
- extensively. Most of his work was published by JASA (Journal of the
- Acoustic Society of America). Any good university library would have
- copies,
- and you can use bibliographies to trace the data further.
-
- -- The MIT Speech group published a large volume describing MITalk, the
- research predecessor to DECtalk. Jon Allen is the primary author, and
- this, too, should be in a university library. I believe it was published
- by MIT Press.
-
- -- Electronics Magazine published a non-technical description of DECtalk
- in early 1984. Although the authors were listed as Klatt, Bruckert, and
- Minow (but not necessarily in that order), the actual writing was done
- by a contracted journalist. (We did edit the result, of course.)
-
- -- You might also look for reports from the MIT Research Laboratory of
- Electronics, where Dennis' work often appeared in pre-print or draft
- form.
-
- -- The letter-to-phoneme rules used in the original DECtalk were based on
- Chomsky & Halle, Sound Pattern of English. The software emulation was
- written by Sherri Hunnicutt and published in a microfiche series by
- a journal of computational linguistics whose precise name I can't
- recall;
- IJCAI, perhaps.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Martin Minow
- minow@apple.com
-