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milestones in text-to-speech conversion (Klatt 1987)

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Part D: Full text-to-speech conversion




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d24
The first full text-to-speech system, done in Japan by Noriko Umeda et al., 1968.


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d25
The first Bell Laboratories text-to-speech system, by Cecil Coker, Noriko Umeda, and Cathrine Browman, 1973.


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d26
The Haskins Laboratories text-to-speech system, 1973.


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d27
The Kurzweil reading machine for the blind, Raymond Kurzweil, 1976.


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d28
The inexpensive Votrax Type-'n'-Talk system, by Richard Gagnon, 1978.


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d29
The Echo low-cost diphone concatenation system, about 1982.


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d30
The M.I.T. MITalk system, by Jonathan Allen, Sheri Hunnicutt, and Dennis Klatt, 1979.


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d31
The multi-language Infovox system, by Rolf Carlson, Björn Granström, and Sheri Hunnicutt, 1982.


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d32
The Speech Plus Inc. Prose-2000 commercial system, 1982.


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d33
The Klattalk system, by Dennis Klatt of M.I.T., which formed the basis for Digital Equipment Corporation's DECtalk commercial system, 1983.


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d34
The AT&T Bell Laboratories text-to-speech system, 1985.


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d35
Several of the DECtalk voices.


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d36
DECtalk speaking at about 300 words/minute.


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19 Sep 2000