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milestones in text-to-speech conversion (Klatt 1987) | b15 - b16 - b17 - b18 - b19 - | |
Part B: Segmental synthesis by rule | ||
| The first synthesis-by-rule programs concentrated on the development of rules for phonemic synthesis, and did not include rules for the automatic specification of phoneme durations and fundamental frequency. Since prosody was specified by hand to match a natural recording, these demonstrations sound significantly better than they would if all information had been derived by rule. |  listen to demonstration  technical details  text/transcript  | |
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b15 Creation of a sentence from rules in the head of Pierre Delattre, using the Haskins Pattern Playback, 1959. | |
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b16 Output from the first computer-based phonemic synthesis-by-rule program, created by John Kelly and Louis Gerstman, 1961. | |
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b17 Elegant rule program for British English by John Holmes, Ignatius Mattingly, and John Shearme, 1964. | |
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b18 Formant synthesis using diphone concatenation, by Rex Dixon and David Maxey, 1968. | |
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b19 Rules to control a low-dimensionality articulatory model, by Cecil Coker, 1968. | |
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