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- From: rid@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bob Damper)
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- Subject: Re: information about DECtalk
- Message-ID: <13566@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:43:09 GMT
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- In <minow-101192102931@minow.apple.com> minow@apple.com (Martin Minow) writes:
-
- >-- 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.
-
- Try his 1987 ``Review of Text-to-Speech Conversion for English'' in
- JASA (Vol. 82, pages 737 -- 792). It's absolutely excellent (his
- remarks on connectionism notwithstanding).
-
- >-- 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.
-
- Cambridge University Press actually, in 1987.
-
- >-- The letter-to-phoneme rules used in the original DECtalk were based on
- > Chomsky & Halle, Sound Pattern of English.
-
- Not quite. The *formalism* (i.e.~context-dependent rewrite rules)
- comes from Chomsky and Halle (1968) but not their specific content.
- This formalism was first used for text-to-phoneme conversion by Bill
- Ainsworth back in 1973. Since then, it has become very popular.
-
- >-- 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.
-
- American Journal of Computational Linguistics, Microfiche 57, 1976,
- pages 1 -- 72. Its title is ``Phonological rules for text-to-speech
- conversion''.
-
- Bob Damper
- rid@uk.ac.soton.ecs
-