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) * * -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu(@t)hotmail(d0t)com jzg22(@t)drexel(d0t)edu * Don Y* dgy at DakotaCom.Net <mailto:cctech%40classiccmp.org?Subject=OT-ish%3F%20%20McIlroy%27s%20%22Synthetic%20English%20Speech%20by%20Rule%22&In-Reply-To=> /Wed Jul 19 21:37:44 CDT 2006 / 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