UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Dept. of Phonetics & Linguistics
London, United Kingdom


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HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION


1991 Bridgman, R. "An interview with Adrian Fourcin, Professor
     of Experimental Phonetics at University College London". 
     Recorded by Roger Bridgman, Science Museum London, Dec. 10,
     1991. (See transcription SSSHP 105 in SSSHP UK Univ. 
     College file.) 

     Professor Fourcin reviews his education and career, including
     the National Physical Laboratory, Imperial College with 
     Dennis Gabor and Colin Cherry, CNRS in France with Marcou and
     Daguet, Signals Research and Development Establishment with 
     Walter Lawrence and Ralph Eades on speech synthesis, a visit
     to Haskins Laboratories, NY, on pitch perception, and finally
     University College London, on speech and hearing science with 
     Dennis Fry.
    

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PROJECT: FORMANT SYNTHESIZER (19   - 19   )


Similar to Haskins Laboratory's OCTOPUS. Ten sections.

1959 Peterson, G.E., and Ilse Lehiste, "Report on visits to
     European laboratories and congresses on speech and
     acoustics, August 13 - September 12, 1959", Speech Research
     Laboratory, Univ.  of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, 1959. Copy in
     SSSHP USA Univ. of Michigan file. Visit with Dennis B. Fry 
     and Peter Denes.

     Tape ?


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BIOGRAPHIES


DENNIS B. FRY

1959 Professor, Dept. of Phonetics
19?? Deceased


PETER DENES

     B.Sc. in            , Manchester University, England
     M.Sc. in            , Manchester University, England
1943 Research Engineer, Welwyn Electrical Laboratories
1946 Lecturer, University College London
     Phonetics Dept. laboratory supervisor
     Physicist, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
     Honorary Consultant at Royal National Institute for the
     Deaf.
     Ph.D. in            , Univ. of London, London
1960 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
1987?Retired 
     Deceased


ADRIAN J. FOURCIN
    
1947 BSc in E.E., Northampton Polytechnic, London
1947 Engineering Division, National Physical Laboratory
1948? GEC (full name?), Coventry
1949 Imperial College, speech communication, under Dennis Gabor
     and Colin Cherry
1953 CNRS (full name?), Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, speech
     communication
1955 Signals Research and Development Establishment, 
     Christchurch, speech synthesis, with Walter Lawrence
1958 6-mo. visit, Haskins Laboratories, New York, pitch perception
1959 SRDE
1959? PhD, Imperial College
1960 University College London, speech and hearing science, 
     with Dennis Fry
1992? retired from University College London


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