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From: spiegel@bellcore.com (Murray Spiegel)
Subject: Re: DecTalk info?
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|> 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.

DECvoice contains speech recognition, speech compression ("digitized speech"), 
_as well as_ text-to-speech.  It is, in some sense, a superset of DECtalk.
