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From: ctp@pop.utexas.edu (Clyde T. Poole)
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Subject: Re: Request for information on phoneme speech synthesis
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Date: Sun, 14-Dec-86 17:57:42 EST
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>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.

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