On Mar 3 2005, 22:16, Richard A. Cini wrote: and hold song was (2) have an Sounds (sorry) like a good idea. The inspiration for HAL singing "Daisy" when he was lobotomised by Dave Bowman in "2001" was that Bell Labs had demonstrated an IBM 7094 "singing" "Daisy" in 1961. Bell Labs were doing research into vocal-tract modelling; John Kelly had wired a speaker to one of the output bits and he and Carol Lochbaum[1] programmed the vocal, with Max Mathews, who was pioneering digital music, did the accompaniment. The whole thing was programmed onto magtape, read back once complete and "played" through the speaker. The recording they made was also once available on an album called "Music I'm sure there used to be an article on the web about it, though I can't seem to find it right now, though I have found references to some of the Bell Labs reports and tapes: http://www.mindspring.com/~ssshp/ssshp_cd/ss_btl1.htm (about 2/3 down). What I can find, though, is a digitised copy of the recording they made, which I downloaded, so I've put it on my website for you: http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/daisy.aifc I also have an MP3 version, which isn't much inferior (and much smaller!): http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/daisy.mp3 There's an updated, unaccompanied, somewhat shorter, version from later work (text-to-speech project) at Bell Labs: www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/languages.html www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/daisy.aiff [1] sometimes mispelt "Lockbaum" -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York