Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!mailrus!bbn!eddie!mit-amt!mit-caf!fritz From: fritz@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Frederick Herrmann) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: phonetic based voice synthesis Message-ID: <3255@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> Date: 30 Sep 89 21:31:41 GMT References: <976@serene.UUCP> <2427@optilink.UUCP> Reply-To: fritz@mit-caf.UUCP (Frederick Herrmann) Organization: Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT Lines: 22 In article <2427@optilink.UUCP> elliott@optilink.UUCP (Paul Elliott x225) writes: >I recall that the SC-01 is (was?) made by Votrax, and was their first >I.C. systhesizer. Prior to that they made potted modules, using op-amp > >Votrax provided an impressive text-to-speech program, running on a P.C., >for use with the SC-01. I have no idea what the current state of affairs NTIS also distributes a text-to-speech program for Votrax synthesizers, developed at NRL. I believe the principal author's name was Honey Sue Elovitz. I can look up the reference if anybody cares. The program worked pretty well, the only catch was that the source code was in SNOBOL. I converted it to 8088 assembler and defined it as an MS-DOS device: C> echo Hello > voice: I'd be happy to send the source code to anyone who asks, but it was pretty specific to a homebrew project based on a Ciarcia article in Byte. - Fritz fritz@caf.mit.edu