Electronically Speaking: Computer Speech GenerationIncludes Techniques, a Synthesizer Overview, Advice on Problem Areas & a History of Synthetic Speech Research |
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allophones AMPLIFIER amplitude analog formant applications audio filter basic bytes chapter clock computer speech consonants converter Courtesy create delta encoding delta modulation Digitalker electronic formant frequency formant synthesizer fricative glottal pulse home computer human speech input interface keyboard language linear predictive coding LPC speech LPC synthesis machine mechanism memory method of speech Micromouth microphone microprocessor mouth nasal National Semiconductor normal operation parallel PARCOR phoneme phonetic speech phrase pitch playback port RESONATOR sampling rate shown in Fig signal Speak and Spell speaker speech output speech processor speech sounds speech storage speech synthesis speech synthesis system Speech Technology spoken word stop consonants stored synthesis method synthetic speech Table talking computer technique Telesensory Speech Systems Texas Instruments text-to-speech thesizer Type N Talk unlimited vocabulary unvoiced vocal cords vocal tract voice Votrax vowel waveform encoded word hello ΚΩ