Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!pop!ctp From: ctp@pop.utexas.edu (Clyde T. Poole) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Request for information on phoneme speech synthesis Message-ID: <6581@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Dec-86 17:57:42 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.6581 Posted: Sun Dec 14 17:57:42 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 03:18:06 EST References: <854@aicchi.UUCP> <2757@fritz.UUCP> Sender: news@ut-sally.UUCP Reply-To: ctp@pop.UUCP (Clyde T. Poole) Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 34 >In article <854@aicchi.UUCP> dbb@aicchi.UUCP (Burch) writes: > >I am designing a system for a client that will use phoneme synthesis to >communicate with a user. I am looking for references to papers on the >subject. Due to parts count limitations, we will not be able to use >any of the commercial speech synthesis chips. In this system, phonemes >will be stored as sampled A/D patterns, and spliced together in real >time to create speech. Also, if anybody has public domain source code >for such a system, that would be greatly appreciated. > I don't know if this will help, but I have a few basic references to research in translation of English text to speech using Phonetics. If your intention was to save phonemes and then put them together these may help. Unfortunately I didn't keep good notes so these may be incomplete. Automatic Translation of English Text to Phonetics by Means of Letter-to-Sound Rules, Elovitz, H.S., Johnson, R.W., McHush, A., Shore, J.E., Naval Research Laboratory, NRL Reprot 7948, January 21, 1976. Synthetic English Speech by Rule, McIlroy, M.D., Bell Telephone Laboratories, Computing Science Technical Report #14, March, 1974 and revised September 14, 1977. ----- Clyde T. Poole, Computing Resources Manager ARPA: ctp@sally.utexas.edu VOICE: (512) 471-9551 UUCP: {harvard,ihnp4,seismo}!ut-sally!ctp CIS: 75226,3135 Overland: UT at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences Taylor Hall 2.124, Austin, TX 78712-1188 "Life is a bitch ... and then you die"