| Part D: Fully automatic text-to-speech
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| 24. The first full text-to-speech system, done in Japan by Noriko
Umeda et al., 1968. |
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| 25. The first Bell Laboratories text-to-speech system, by Cecil
Coker, Noriko Umeda, and Cathrine Browman, 1973. |
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| 26. The Haskins Laboratories text-to-speech system, 1973. |
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| 27. The Kurzweil reading machine for the blind, Raymond Kurzweil,
1976. |
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| 28. The inexpensive Votrax Type-n-Talk system,
by Richard Gagnon, 1978. |
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| 29. The Echo low-cost diphone concatenation system,
about 1982. |
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| 30. The MIT MITalk system, by Jonathan Allen,
Sheri Hunnicutt, and Dennis Klatt, 1979. |
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| 31. The multi-language Infovox system, by Rolf
Carlson, Bjorn Granström and Sheri Hunnicut, 1982. |
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| 32. The Speech Plus Inc. ``Prose-2000'' commercial
system, 1982. |
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| 33. The Klattalk system, by Dennis Klatt of MIT,
which formed the basis for Digital Equipment Corporation's DECtalk
commercial system, 1983. |
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| 34. The ATT Bell Laboratories text-to-speech system, 1985. |
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| 35. Several of the DECtalk voices. |
| (a) `Perfect Paul' |
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| (b) `Beautiful Betty' |
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| (c) `Huge Harry' |
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| (d) `Kit the Kid' |
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| (e) `Whispering Wendy ' |
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| 36. DECtalk speaking at about 300 words/minute. |
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