2 Feb
2007
2 Feb
'07
9:19 a.m.
In article <45C2FE00.32498.8FD5BC6 at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
On 2 Feb 2007 at 8:38, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Correct.
And long before that, there were the Votrax and Computalker S-100
boards.
I first heard speech synthesis with a Votrax unit attached to a PLATO
system at UDel in 1978. The PLATO folks there were pretty arrogant
and obviously had a bigger budget than we did with their comfy chairs,
fancy rooms (with AIR CONDITIONING!), Votrax units and PLATO graphics
terminals while we had LA-36s and wiggy Beehives at 300 baud. We were
the underdogs :-).
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There was Software Automatic Mouth for the C64 (SAM),
Wasn't that a speech synthesizer, rather than a recognition system?