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From: blake@hoqst1.ho.att.com (-PATTERSON BLAKE)
Subject: Re: Is anybody using DEC TALK ?
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Keywords: DECTALK, speech synthesizer, pronunciation accuracy
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 17:35:44 GMT
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>>Is anybody out there using DECTALK ? I have heard good things
>>about DECTALK. I called the demo line and was VERY impressed.
>>Checked the price, unbelievable $199.  Why so low ?
 . . .
>
. . . The fact it's still selling with essentially the same voice 
>after 10 years says it all - it's the best there is!

DECTALK appears to be the speech synthesizer of choice for Clarity
Inc, Red Bank, NJ 07701. (Contact number: 908-530-5100.)

Clarity Inc offers the UnDirectory service, the only fully
automated dial-up reverse directory for the entire U.S.  (A reverse
directory gives the name and address for a phone number.) To hear how
the UnDirectory service uses DECTALK, use a touch-tone phone to call
1-900-933-3330. The cost is $1 per minute.

The company claims to have 80 million listed names and addresses in its
databases. That may make the UnDirectory service the general-public
speech-synthesizer application having the largest vocabulary in the
world. DECTALK's pronunciation accuracy and intelligibility appear high,
even for unusual words.

Blake Patterson
AT&T Bell Labs

