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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
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Reply-To: fritz@mit-caf.UUCP (Frederick Herrmann)
Organization: Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT
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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