Kurzweil KVS - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Oct 1998

Hi Doug and all,
At 02:22 AM 10/29/98 -0600, you wrote:
...
 On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, dave dameron wrote:

  In a recent "Electronic Design"
magazine, the column "40 years ago", there
 was an article about IBM and digitized speech. It is an interesting column,
 as well as Bob Pease's. 
Can you summarize the article?  I can imagine a lot of ways to digitize
speech without a lot of RAM, but I'm curious about what they were doing in
the 50's with the data.  I seem to remember things like "formant" 
decomposition and analysis to be reasearch topics in the 70's.  Come to
think of it, I don't even know when things like the FFT were invented, but
I thought even that was not until the 60's or so. 
 I don't have it anymore, it had a lot to do with sampling and compression,
as they had only 32k memory. It appeared in the last 4 months, so the
original article was in 1958. Maybe someone else can find it easily?
-Dave