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From: minow@apple.com (Martin Minow)
Subject: Re: information about DECtalk
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:41:49 GMT
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In article <ulrike.721401334@gmd.de>, ulrike@gmd.de (Ulrike Bauer) wrote:
> 
> Please, could ANYBODY, who knows something about it, email me which
> articles exist about DECtalk, ...

The DECtalk documentation (your local Dec office might be able to find a
copy) has a bibliography and summary description. From memory, there are
several sources for more information.

-- Dennis Klatt, who invented the technology used in DECtalk, published
   extensively. Most of his work was published by JASA (Journal of the
   Acoustic Society of America). Any good university library would have
copies,
   and you can use bibliographies to trace the data further.

-- The MIT Speech group published a large volume describing MITalk, the
   research predecessor to DECtalk. Jon Allen is the primary author, and
   this, too, should be in a university library. I believe it was published
   by MIT Press.

-- Electronics Magazine published a non-technical description of DECtalk
   in early 1984. Although the authors were listed as Klatt, Bruckert, and
   Minow (but not necessarily in that order), the actual writing was done
   by a contracted journalist. (We did edit the result, of course.)

-- You might also look for reports from the MIT Research Laboratory of
   Electronics, where Dennis' work often appeared in pre-print or draft
form.

-- The letter-to-phoneme rules used in the original DECtalk were based on
   Chomsky & Halle, Sound Pattern of English. The software emulation was
   written by Sherri Hunnicutt and published in a microfiche series by
   a journal of computational linguistics whose precise name I can't
recall;
   IJCAI, perhaps.

Hope this helps.

Martin Minow
minow@apple.com
