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From: spiegel@din.bellcore.com (Murray Spiegel)
Subject: Re: VOTRAX
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 16:35:32 GMT
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|> Wonder if anyone can help out completing a reference...
|> What was/is  the address (city & state at least)
|> of VOTRAX, A division of Federal Screw Works
|> (VOTRAX was 1st inexpensive synthesis box).

Since you are referencing historical info, you may be interested in this:
VOTRAX made the first English full Text-to-speech system, called the SVA.
I believe it was marketed in '82.  There were several synthesis devices 
starting from phoneme-(and-other-marks) input prior to that: 
UVE (swedish), Votrax's ML-1, Olive at Bell Labs had one ... going back 
to Haskins Lab's optical-track-based Pattern Playback in the late 40s.
