Dennis Klatt's development of speech synthesizers 1939-1985 voice demonstration
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- This page contains the audio example sthat were distributed on an LP record with: Dennis Klatt's (1987), "Review of text-to-speech conversion for English" J. Acous. Soc. Amer. 82, 737-793. He offers explanations of each of the examples.
Introduction
Part A: Development of speech synthesizers 1939-1982
Part 1 The VODER of Homer Dudley, 1939.
Part 2 The Pattern Playback designed by Franklin Cooper, 1951.
Part 3 PAT, the "Parametric Articficial Talker" of Walter Lawrence, 1953.
Part 4 The "OVE" cascade formant synthesizer of Gunnar Fant
Part 5 Copying a natural sentence using Walter Lawerence's PAT formant synthesizer, 1962.
Part 6 Copying the same sentence using the second generation of Gunar Fant's OVE cascade formant synthesizer, 1962.
Part 7 Comparison of synthesis and a natural sentence, using OVE II, by John Holmes, 1961
Part 8 Comparison of synthesis and a natural sentence, John Holmes using his parallel formant synthesizer, 1973.
Part 9 Attempting to scale the DECtalk male voice to make it sound female.
Part 10 Comparison of synthesis and a natural sentence, fremale voice, Dennis Klatt, 1986b,
Part 11 The DAVO articulatory synthesizer developed by George Rosen at M.I.T., 1958.
Part 12 Sentences produced by an articulatory model, James Flanagan and Kenzo Ishizaka, 1976
Part 13 Linear-prediction analysis and resynthesis of speech at a low-bit rate in the Texas Instruments Speak'n'Spell toy, Richard Wiggins, 1980.
Part 14 Comparison of synthesis and a natural recording, automatic analysis-resynthesis using multi-pulse linear prediction, Bishnu Atal, 1982.
Part B: Segmental synthesis by rule 1959-1968
Part 15 Creation of a sentence from rules in the head of Pierre Delattre, using the Haskins Pattern Playback, 1959.
Part 16 Output from the first computer-based phonemic-synthesis-by-rule program, created by John Kelly and Louis Gerstman, 1961.
Part 17 Elegant rule program for British English by John Holmes, Ignatius Mattingly, and John Shearme, 1964.
Part 18 Formant synthesis using diphone concatenation, by Rex Dixon and David Maxey, 1968.
Part 19 Rules to control a low-dimensionality articulatory model, by Cecil Coker, 1968.
Part C: Synthesis by rule of segments and sentence prosody 1968-1980
Part 20 First prosodic synthesis by rule, by Ignatius Mattingly, 1968.
Part 21 Sentence-level phonology incorporated in rules by Dennis Klatt, 1976.
Part 22 Concatenation of linear-prediction diphones, by Joe Olive, 1977.
Part 23 Concatenation of linear-prediction demisylables by Catherine Browman, 1980.
Part D: Fully Automatic text-to-speech conversion 1968-1985
Part 24 The first full text-to-speech system, done in Japan by Noriko Umeda et al., 1968.
Part 25 The first Bell Laboraatories text-to-speech system by Cecil Coker, Noriko Umeda, and Catherine Browman, 1973.
Part 26 The Haskins Laboratories text-to-speech system, 1973.
Part 27 The Kurzweil reading machine for the blind, Raymond Kurzweil, 1976.
Part 28 The inexpensive Votrax Type-n-Talk system, by Richard Gagnon, 1978.
Part 29 The Echo low-cost diphone concatenation system, about 1982.
Part 30 The M.I.T. MITalk system by Jonathan Allen, Sheri Hunnicut, and Dennis Klatt, 1979.
Part 31 The multi-language Infovox system, by Rolf Carlson, Bjorn Granstrom, and Sheri Hunnicut, 1982.
Part 32 The Speech Plus Inc. "Prose-2000" commercial system, 1982.
Part 33 The Klattalk system by Dennis Klatt of M.I.T. which formed the basis for Digital Equiptment Corporation's DECtalk commercial systenm 1983.
Part 34 The AT&T Bell Laboratories text-to-speech system, 1985.
Part 35 Several of the DECtalk voices.
Part 36 DECtalk speaking at about 300 words/minute.
Conclusion
This guy was the voice of Steven Hawkings. His voice lives on in the DecTalk system. He used his own voice as a model.
It’s crazy how you can still Stephen Hawking’s “voice” when he talks. It’s almost uncanny to hear that voice so clearly and naturally.
Thanks for posting this. I worked on porting Klattalk/DECTalk when I was in high school in the mid 1980s.
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13:35 it's the bart voice
Really impressed by the first model from 1939.
I've been WANTING someone to put this on RUclips!! MAD props from chipspeech land, my dude.
What a LEGENDARY INVENTOR...
I bet most people do t know that Stephen Hawking’s first electronic voice was made and recorded by this man.
I think he only used that voice ever
you probably just knew about this and pretend that you are a smart ass
Literally came here to hear how Dennis Klatt originally sounded like knowing he was Stephen Hawkings electronic voice. How or why else would I be here.. :D
I wonder if Professor Hawking ever switched to the little boy voice just for fun? Delivering some groundbreaking high powered lecture to esteemed colleagues only to wind them up for a few minutes!
The voter From the 1930s was operated by very specific hand movements, usually performed by women. The various, intricate movements produced different phonemes. I think this is really interesting because the machine speaks in that mid Atlantic way that a lot of stars from the 1930s spoke in. The male voice also seems to Lean towards speech patterns that sound more feminine.
0:41 ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US
I LOVE TTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nice information!
test of johns maddens
Sometimes I wonder about the future of humans and crap
balls farts and thing.
Dude that's crazy
wait, this man said that some of these demonstrations were from 1987 but he recorded this in 1986. I have a question.
ya abit odd
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Dennis Klatt voice synthesizer has been used in metaphor for spiritual entertainment on the movie Excercist video called Gemini Serial Killer you gotta see the video for yourself for comparison like scream horror is one of the newest serial killing movies also. Voice Synthesizers have been used on people while under anesthesia and not knowing how to explain themselves. I don’t like this invention and I hope that everyone that like this invention goes to hell.
The cyclic boum boum behind is really annoying !!!!!!!!
Klatt and Hawking are in Hell
Why exactly?
They're atheist