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From: FUNNELL@medcor.mcgill.ca (W. Robert J. Funnell)
Subject: Re: DecTalk info?
In-Reply-To: skfong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk's message of Tue, 19 Oct 1993 08:41:51 GMT
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In <CF4yts.BLv@sparc15.cs.cuhk.hk> skfong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk writes:

> I just learned from a DEC salesman that DECtalk is already replaced by
> DECvoice.  DECvoice runs on VMS systems and is capable of synthesizing
> messages from text, performing voice recognition and some other
> functions.

The DECtalk people at DEC certainly don't think DECtalk is dead.
I may be wrong, but I believe DECvoice handles only digitized
speech, rather than synthesizing speech from text.  In any
case, DECtalk continues to be DEC's text-to-speech product.

- Robert Funnell, Dept. BioMedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal
  FUNNELL@MEDCOR.MCGILL.CA
