Replying yet again, a library search lists my university as apparently
having every volume of the Bell Systems Technical Journal on
microfilm, so if it turns out to have been published there I can fetch
it. Matter of fact, I should go check those out anyway...
John
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu <jzg22 at drexel.edu> wrote:
I know this is a 'blast from the past', but
did anyone ever find the McIlroy
paper? The McIlroy algorithm both inspired and was in direct competition
with the NRL algorithm. The NRL algorithm was developed by Votrax and the
Naval Research Laboratory, details of which are discussed in another paper
(NTIS ADA0121 929, NRL report 7948) which is available from the national
archives in college park, MD. (I'm planning to get a copy of the latter, but
have no idea how to get a copy of the M. D. McIlroy paper. the version in
the journal of the acoustical society of america is not the complete paper,
but a citation of it for a conference, afaict)
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My only claim to being *possibly* on-topic is the age
of the article (1974) and the fact that it inspired
many of the early phoneme-driven speech synthesizers
(Votrax, etc.).
Does anyone have access to a suitably good engineering
library with a copy of:
McIlroy, M D, "Synthetic English Speech by Rule",
Bell Telephone Labs, CSTR #14, 1973 (though I have
also seen it referenced as 1974!)
or:
Ainsworth, W A, "A System for Converting English Text
to Speech", IEEE Trans Audio & Electroacoustics AU-21 #3
pp 288-290, 1973
The former is far more interesting to me than the
latter :-(
(sigh) There are *some* advantages to being a student
(though those days are long past, in my case!)
I can try my local public library to see if it is
available via ILL. I guess I could also try the local
university's engineering library.
Thanks!
--don