20 Jul
2006
20 Jul
'06
6:49 p.m.
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Graham Toal wrote:
Yes, I haven't found these to be widely available. I'll
try the university and perhaps send a note to the author
(can't hurt! B. Stroustrup replied to some critiques
I had of one of *his* texts ;> )
I think Gary Steele (?) wrote a book some years ago though
probably hobbyist level (we shared an employer at the time...
though that last name doesn't sound right :< )
> McIlroy, M
D, "Synthetic English Speech by Rule",
> Bell Telephone Labs, CSTR #14, 1973 (though I have
> also seen it referenced as 1974!)
>
> Ainsworth, W A, "A System for Converting English Text
> to Speech", IEEE Trans Audio & Electroacoustics AU-21 #3
> pp 288-290, 1973
Sorry, turned out to be neither, although the two books I remembered
having are very similar in content. I have: From text to
speech: The MITalk system (allen, hunnicutt & klatt)
Electronic synthesis of speech (linggard)
These two are fairly good:
English word stress (fudge)
Generative phonology (kenstowicz & kisseberth)
Fudge is definitely recommended reading. Linggard is at the vocoder/electronic circuit level.
Unless you're
doing your own chip, it's probably not relevant.
No. A simple CODEC and do everything digitally -- except
the final gain stages ("volume control")
Though I *would* be interested in seeing what was inside
the Votrax VS6 product! IIRC, it was entirely analog
(though the manual for the product says little about the
guts... Gagnon was obviously concerned with preserving
the "secrets" of his technology :> )
I also have a whole pile of chomsky-type grammar books
and computational
morphology books that any linguist would be happy to have as their
entire library :-) (I'm not a linguist, just a programmer who once
worked on spelling correction and got off on a tangent for a time)
Yikes! Sort of like working on the design of a hammer handle
and building a HOUSE in the process?? :>
--don