Singing Robot (2010)

HRP-4C Humanoid Robot(http://youtu.be/_migLQ802Go Retrieved: ... read more

Daniel Doughty
Posted 15th September 2012 at 5:27 PM

Human-like Robot (2010)

Human-Like Robot (http://youtu.be/zIuF5DcsbKU Retreived: ... read more

Daniel Doughty
Posted 15th September 2012 at 5:24 PM

Essential Tones Of Music Rooted In Human Speech (May 2007)

ESSENTIAL TONES OF MUSIC ROOTED IN HUMAN SPEECHA study of the tonal relationship of music to speech by researchers at the Duke University, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070524145005.htm Retrieved: ... read more

Daniel Doughty
Posted 15th September 2012 at 5:19 PM

Early Computer Voice Synthesis (1961)

The first computer-based speech synthesis systems were created in the late 1950s, and the first complete text-to-speech system was completed in 1968. In 1961, physicist John Larry Kelly, Jr and colleague Louis Gerstman used an IBM 704 computer to synthesize speech, an event among the most prominent in the history of Bell Labs. Kelly's voice recorder synthesizer (vocoder) recreated the song "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Coincidentally, ... read more

Daniel Doughty
Posted 14th September 2012 at 3:07 PM

Dennis Klatt's History Of Speech Synthesis

DENNIS KLATT'S HISTORY OF SPEECH SYNTHESISSeveral audio clips of synthetic speech illustrating  the history of the art and technology of  synthetically produced human speech. (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/rhythmsp/ASA/Contents.html Retrieved: ... read more

Daniel Doughty
Posted 14th September 2012 at 2:54 PM