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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

The Birth Of The Synthetic Voice

THE BIRTH OF THE SYNTHETIC VOICEJean-Marc Pelletier discusses early synthetic voices.(http://jmpelletier.com/the-birth-of-the-synthetic-voice Retrieved: ... read more

Daniel Doughty
Posted 14th September 2012 at 2:44 PM