SynSIG - SPEECH SYNTHESIS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP

SynSIGSPEECH SYNTHESIS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPA very useful site promoting the study of Speech Synthesis in general. (http://www.synsig.org/index.php/Main_Page Retrieved: ... read more

Daniel Doughty
Posted 15th September 2012 at 5:11 PM

Charles Dodge's Speech Songs (1973)

CHARLES DODGE'S SPEECH SONGSDodge was a pioneer of using voice-sythesis experiments in a creative way. Some background on his 'Speech Songs' can be found here.  (http://www.furious.com/perfect/ohm/dodge.html Retreived: ... read more

Daniel Doughty
Posted 14th September 2012 at 3:38 PM

Orbital and Stephen Hawking at the London Paralympics 2012 Opening ceremony.

Orbital performing "Where Is It Going?" at the 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony with Stephen Hawking. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfmpxaLl6c4 Retreived: ... read more

Daniel Doughty
Posted 14th September 2012 at 3:28 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