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unusual facts about Speech synthesis


Hans Mauch

The company also introduced the Sterotoner, an early text-to-speech device for the blind, worked on human factors research, and developed an advanced spacesuit for NASA and the US Air Force.



see also

Articulatory phonology

Kröger, B.J., Birkholz, P. (2007) A gesture-based concept for speech movement control in articulatory speech synthesis.

Articulatory synthesis

One of the few commercial articulatory speech synthesis systems is the NeXT-based system originally developed and marketed by Trillium Sound Research, a spin-off company of the University of Calgary, where much of the original research was conducted.

Mac OS 9

Speakable Items 2.0, also known as PlainTalk, featuring improved speech synthesis and recognition along with AppleScript integration.

SSML

Speech Synthesis Markup Language, an XML-based markup language for speech synthesis applications.