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HASKINS LABORATORIES


(1939)  305 East 43rd Street, New York, NY
(1969)  270 Crown Street, New Haven, CT 06511
                              

CONTENTS:

HISTORY

GENERAL/SURVEYS

RESEARCH PROGRAM

READING MACHINE FOR THE BLIND (1944-    )

PATTERN PLAYBACK SYNTHESIZER (1949-1960s)

OCTOPUS FORMANT SYNTHESIZER (1954-1858)

VOBACK, A VODER-TYPE SYNTHESIZER (1956-1964)

COMPUTER-CONTROLLED ANALOG RESONANCE SYNTHESIZER (1964-1980)

BIOGRAPHIES


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HISTORY


1985 I. Mattingly, poem on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of
     Haskins Laboratories. Humorous review of the work of Haskins
     Laboratories. Synthesized on a DECtalk 3.0, 1985 (see SSSHP
     USA DEC file).

     SSSHP 92.4 Tape: "MIT - DEMO TAPE 2, 10/90"
          (syn, 3:45 min: "Poem for the 50th anniversary of the
          ...  here at Haskins.")
          7" reel, 7.5 ips, good quality, copy of Klatt MIT tape


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GENERAL/SURVEYS


1950 Cooper, F.S., "Spectrum analysis", J. Acoust Soc Amer, 22,
     761-762 (1950).  (I)


1961 Liberman, A.M., K.S. Harris, J.A. Kinney, and H. Lane, "The
     discrimination of relative onset-time of the components of
     certain speech and nonspeech patterns", J. Ex. Psych.,
     61.379-388.  (I) Studies of differences between perception
     of speech and non-speech signals.


1962 Cooper, F.S., "Speech synthesizers", Proc. 4th Int. Congr.
     Phonetic Sci., Helsinki, 4.3-13 (1961).  (I) General
     discussions of speech synthesis.


1967 Mattingly, Ignatius G., "Speech Synthesis by Rule as a
     Research Technique", invited paper at the 73rd Meeting of
     the Acoustical Society of America, New York City, 19-22
     April 1967. (copy in SSSHP USA Haskins Lab file)


1967 Liberman, A.M., F.S. Cooper, D.P. Shankweiler, and
     M. Studdert-Kennedy, "Perception of the speech code", Psych
     Review, 74, 431-461 (1967).  (I,K) Encoded nature of speech.


1970 Abramson, A.S., and L. Lisker, "Laryngeal behavior, the
     speech signal and phonological simplicity", Actes du Xe
     Congres International des Linguistes, 4, 123-129 (1970). (I)


1972 Cooper, F.S., "Some reminiscences on speech research",
     plastic soundsheet in the IEEE Trans. A&E, Au-21.3, June
     1973.  Remarks by F.S. Cooper on the occasion of his
     receiving the 1972 Award of Pioneer in Speech Communication
     from the IEEE Audio and Electroacoustics Group.
     Reminiscences of the development of speech synthesis.
     Soundsheet contains samples of synthetic speech of Haskins
     and other laboratories.

     SSSHP 83 Tape: "Some Reminiscences on Speech Research," F.S.
          Cooper, 4/25/72, '72 SCP".
          Cassette, some stylus noise, copy of soundsheet


1974 Mattingly, I.G., "Speech Synthesis for Phonetic and
     Phonological Models", CURRENT TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS, T.A.
     Sebeok, Ed., Vol 12, Mouton, the Hague, 1974. Online, 
     this site. One of the three sources for the SSSHP outlines. 
     Reference "(I)" in the outlines.


1984 Cooper, F.S., J.H. Gaitenby, and P.W. Nye, "Evolution of
     reading machines for the blind:  Haskins Laboratories'
     research as a case history," J. Rehab. Research  and Dev.
     21, 51-87 (1984).  Summary of text-to-speech research from
     mid 1950s to mid 1970s. Text-to-speech funding lapsed.  (K)


(for additional General/Survey papers, see SSSHP USA Haskins
 Laboratories file)


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RESEARCH PROGRAM


"The nature of speech, its perception, and its uses in human
communication have long been a major research interest of the
Haskins Laboratories. The work on speech had its origins in the
practical problem of devising an efficient acoustic code for use
in reading machines for blinded veterans. This led to a single
answer -- speech -- and to a very deep question: what are the
special properties of the code, and of the perceptual mechanisms,
that make the sounds of speech so distinctive and spoken
communication so effective?

The initial phases of the research were aimed at finding out what
one listens for in understanding what was said. The use of
synthetic speech, made from simplified sound spectrograms, proved
to be a powerful research tool; it led to isolating and
cataloging those minimal aspects of the pattern -- the acoustic
cues -- that carry most of the identifying information. the
practical value of such information is obvious: it shows what
must be preserved and what can be thrown away, and so has served
as a guide to research on bandwidth compression and speech
recognition in a number of laboratories, including our own; it
shows also how to generate synthetic speech by rule, given only
the desired phonemic sequence, and has been so used, here and
elsewhere."

     STATUS REPORT ON SPEECH RESEARCH, SR-1, Haskins
     Laboratories, page 1.1, February, 1965


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PROJECT: READING MACHINE FOR THE BLIND (1944 -     )


"First attempts to provide an auditorily understandable
representation of print by photoelectrically scanning the text
and feeding the signal directly to a pair of earphones worked
only at a slow rate, approximately one tenth that of speaking.
Before commercial versions were available, F.S. Cooper built a
spectrum analyzer (based on the Bell Telephone Laboratories'
sound spectrograph) which produced spectrograms on photographic
film. He also constructed the Pattern Playback to convert speech
spectrograms back into speech."  (PWN)

To get beyond the limitations of these simple text to sound
techniques, Haskins Laboratories embarked on an investigation of
speech synthesis and speech perception that continued for some
three and a half decades. Although another company (see SSSHP USA
Kurzweil file) was destined to produce the first successful
Reading Machine for the Blind, their techniques, and all other
techniques based on synthesis by rule, owe their beginnings to
the Haskins work. Haskins was among the first to demonstrate
that text to speech synthesis might be possible. The following
synthesis projects show the evolution in laboratory techniques
for converting stylized patterns to sound.


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PROJECT: PATTERN PLAYBACK SYNTHESIZER (1949-1960s)


"A circular glass disk on which 50 annular tracts have been
photographically inscribed, intercepts a slit-shaped light beam
and breaks it into a flat comb of 50 rays, the first ray is
modulated at 120 Hz and the others at progressively higher
harmonics. The comb then falls on a moving transparent acetate
belt or film containing a spectrum or a hand-painted pattern.
After reflection or transmission at the belt, the rays are
collected by a photocell and converted into sound.
Photographically-produced sound spectrograms of human speech can
be reproduced in transmission mode and hand-painted patterns play
in reflection mode. The Pattern Playback produces a monotone
output and was used extensively to identify the acoustic cues of
speech until it was displaced by a computer-driven synthesizer
built in the mid 1960s." (PWN)


1949 The first utterance produced by the Pattern Playback, circa
     1949.

     SSSHP 66.1 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn: "Eat at Joe's.")
          7"reel, good quality


1950 Cooper, F.S., A.M. Liberman, and J.M. Borst, "The
     interconversion of audible and visible patterns as a basis
     for research in the perception of speech", Proc. Natl. Acad.
     Sci., 37, 318-325 (1951)  (B.K)  Pattern playback description.
     Sample of synthetic versions of Harvard sentences recorded
     circa 1950.

     SSSHP 66.2 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn: "The gift of speech was denied the poor child.
           Never kill a snake with your bare hands.")
          7"reel, good quality


     Cooper, F.S., "______ ? ______", paper given at the National
     Academy of Sciences, October 10, 1950.

     SSSHP 66.3 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn: "Many are taught to breath through the nose. A
          large size of stockings is hard to sell. Ba, da, ga.")
          7"reel, good quality


Typical Pattern Playback synthesis of this period included three
methods, illustrated by the following samples.  First is
transmission through a transparent (photographic film)
spectrogram of natural speech.  Second is reflection from a
carefully painted copy of a natural spectrogram.  Third is
reflection from a hand-painted simplified spectrogram.  (PWN)

     SSSHP 66.4 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn, 3 var, x2: "Never kill a snake")
          7"reel, good quality


1952 Cooper, F.S., P.C. Delattre, A.M. Liberman, J.M. Borst, and
     L.J. Gerstman, "Some experiments on the perception of
     synthetic speech sounds", J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 24, 597-606
     (1952)  (B,K) CV perception.


1953 Four other sentences produced by the Pattern Playback

     SSSHP 66.5 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn: "These days a chicken leg is a rare dish. It's
          easy to tell the depth of a well. Four hours of steady
          work faced us. A large size of stockings is hard to
          sell.")
          7"reel, good quality

     SSSHP 32.2 Tape: Demo to accompany "Review of Text-to-speech
          conversion for English," D.H.  Klatt, JASA 82.3, 9/87.
          ( 4 sen: "These days a chicken ... is hard to sell.")
          Cassette, Klatt MIT A/D and D/A


1954 Liberman, A.M., P.C. Delattre, F.S. Cooper, and L.J.
     Gerstman, "The role of consonant-vowel transitions in the
     perception of stop and nasal consonants," Psych. Monographs,
     68, 1-13 (1954).

     SSSHP 66.6 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn: "Ba, da, ga.  Pa, ta, ka.  Am, an, ang.  Ba, pa,
          am.")
          7"reel, good quality


1955 Delattre, P., A.M. Liberman, and F.S. Cooper, "Acoustic loci
     and transitional cues for consonants," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer.
     27, 769-774 (1955). Locus theory for CV syllables.  (K)


As the characteristics of the "acoustic cues", the elements of
speech sounds that convey intelligibility, became better understood,
it was possible to construct synthetic speech by rule.  "The
following two sentences were synthesized by Pierre Delattre using
rules that he knew but had not, at that time, attempted to make
explicit." (PWN)

     SSSHP 66.7 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn: "Oh my aching back. A big bad man demanding
          money can kill you, bang bang.")
          7"reel, good quality


1957 The musical composition "Scotch Plaid" composed by Pierre
     Delattre and played on the Pattern Playback.

     SSSHP 66.8 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn, music Scotch Plaid)
          7"reel, good quality


1957 Liberman, A.M., K.S. Harris, H.S. Hoffman, and B.C.
     Griffith, "The discrimination of speech sounds within and
     across phoneme boundaries", J. Exp. Psychol., 53, 358-368,
     (1957). (I)

     SSSHP 66.9 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn, 13 CV's: "Bae,..., dae,..., gae")
          7"reel, good quality


1959 Liberman, A.M., F. Ingemann, L. Lisker, P. Delattre, and
     F.S. Cooper, "Minimal rules for synthesizing speech", J.
     Acoust. Soc. Amer., 31, 1490-1499 (1959). (B,K)

     SSSHP 66.10 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye".
          Synthesis by F. Ingemann.
          (syn: "I synthesized this by rule without looking at
          a spectrogram. Can you understand it?")
          7"reel, good quality

     SSSHP 32.15 Tape: Demo to accompany "Review of Text-to-speech
          conversion for English," D.H.  Klatt, JASA 82.3, 9/87.
          Synthesis by P. Delattre.
          (syn: "I painted this by rule without looking at a
          spectrogram. Can you understand it?")
          Cassette, Klatt MIT A/D and D/A

     ARTIFACT: The Pattern Playback is currently at Haskins
          Laboratories, in working condition. See SSSHP USA
          Haskins file for details.


A second model of the Pattern Playback was operated at the
University of Colorado by Pierre Delattre, later moved to Andre
Malecot's laboratory at the Univ. of California at Santa Barbara,
and eventually dismantled and lost (see communication with Dr. A.
Malecot, 11/16/88, SSSHP USA Haskins file). 

     SSSHP 15 Tape: "Telephone Interviews - H. D. Maxey", 11/16/88
         (Interview with Andre Malecot on Pierre Delattre's
         professional history.)
         Cassette. 

1961 Visit by R.M. Walker and H.D. Maxey of the IBM Research
     Laboratory, San Jose CA, to Pierre Delattre's laboratory.
     Synthesis by rule by Delattre on the second model of
     Pattern Playback.

     SSSHP 124 Tape: "Prof. Delattre's Pattern Playback Examples,
         8/4/61." (Maxey Tape T61.6)
         (syn: tones, vowels, CVs, "My name is Brownie. An old
         Arab ate an apple.")
         4" reel, 7.5 ips.


1961 Visit by Pierre Delattre to the IBM Research Laboratory, San
     Jose, CA. Recorded lecture on acoustic cues and locii theory.

     SSSHP 121 Tape: "Dr. Delattre's talk on cues, 11/17/61," Parts
           1 and 2. (Maxey Tape T61.3)

     SSSHP 122 Tape: "Dr. Delattre's talk on cues, 11/17/61," Parts
           3 and 4. (Maxey Tape T61.4)
           7" reels, 3-3/4 inch/sec, 3 hr - 27 min, good quality


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PROJECT: OCTOPUS FORMANT SYNTHESIZER (1954 - 1958)


"The OCTOPUS consisted of three formant generators connected in
parallel. Each generator could be excited by a pulse train or by
white noise, or by both simultaneously. The exciting signals were
amplitude modulated before being applied to the formant
generators. Control voltages varied the excitation amplitude,
formant frequencies and the frequency of the pulse train. The
control voltages at eight consecutive instants were preset by
potentiometers. A multipole stepping switch applied the voltages
in the proper order at rates of change determined by the time
constants of adjustable RC circuits."  (PWN)

This instrument was built to save labor in painting the many
patterns for the Pattern Playback, which often varied in but one
detail. In the OCTOPUS, the synthesizer control voltages could be
modified by changing potentiometer settings. The simple function
generator limited the utterances to single words or syllables.

1956 Borst, J.M., "The use of spectrograms for speech analysis
     and synthesis," J. Audio Engineering Soc., Vol. 4, 14-23,
     1956. Description of Pattern Playback, Locus theory, OCTOPUS
     vacuum tube synthesizer electronic circuits.

     SSSHP 66.11 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye".
          Synthesis by Andre Malecot in 1958.
          (syn, x2: "Box, socks, sacks, sack, sash, gash, gas,
           guess, yes.")
          7"reel, good quality

     SSSHP 66.12 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye". Last
          words of the Octopus, 1958.
          (syn: "No comment.")
          7"reel


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PROJECT: VOBACK, A VODER-TYPE SYNTHESIZER (1956 - 1964)


"A photoelectrically controlled Vocoder developed at Haskins
Laboratories and based on a BTL report (see L.O. Schott, "A
playback for visible speech," Bell. Tel. Lab. Rec., 26, 333-339,
1948). Hand painted spectrographic patterns provided control
voltages that modulated buzz or hiss signals flowing through the
channels of an 18-channel Vocoder. Two additional controls were
added to the top of the pattern: one selected voice-like or
friction-like excitation and the other controlled voice pitch by
means of a hill-and-dale pattern. A related device called the
"Intonator" permitted arbitrary manipulation of the pitch of real
speech supplied to a vocoder analyzer by a magnetic tape loop.
The tape ran in step with a variable area pitch-control tape and
reference spectrogram. A third device, called the "Amplituder,"
provided instant-by-instant control over output level." (PWN)


1957 Borst, J.M. and F.S. Cooper, "Speech research devices based
     on a channel vocoder", JASA 29, 777(A), 1957.

     SSSHP 66.13 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye".
          Synthesis by Pierre Delattre, 1957.
          (syn, 2 rates: "Alexander's an intelligent
          conversationalist."
          7"reel, good quality


ARTIFACTS:

     SSSHP 74 Plastic Belts. Three 6"x24" plastic control belts,
          circa 1959.

     SSSHP 85 Plastic Belt. Voback transparent belt with black
           tape for Intonator, for making rises and falls at
           various rates, of the fundamental, an octave each
           time. Circa 1959.


1960 Extract from a demonstration tape made for the 4th
     International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Helsinki 1961.

     SSSHP 66.14 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn, x2: "Fa, tha, sa, sha. Sha dza cha dza.")
          7"reel


"A Speech Stretcher, based on the same 18-channel Vocoder
synthesizer, was developed for use in making slow-motion x-ray
movies of the articulators with synchronous speech stretched to
match the pictures. The stretching (and synchronization) were
achieved by recording and replaying the vocoder control voltages
(and timing signals) on a multi-speed 22-track tape recorder."
(PWN)

1963 Abramson, A.S., and F.S.  Cooper, "Slow-motion x-ray
     pictures with stretched speech as a research tool," J.
     Acoust.  Soc.  Amer., 35, 1888-1889 (A), (1963).

     SSSHP 66.15 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          Original human speech followed by Voback output with
          modified intonation or speed.

          (Am. English, human/syn with different intonation:
          "Wouldn't you like to know. The play ended happily.")

          (Thai, human/syn with different intonation: "Nau ...")

          (Am. English, human/syn at slower speed: "Solar
          photography is ... only star.")
          7"reel, good quality


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PROJECT: COMPUTER-CONTROLLED ANALOG RESONANCE SYNTHESIZER
         (1964 - 1980)


"A parallel formant synthesizer designed by F.S. Cooper and R.
Epstein consisting of three formant resonators, a buzz source, a
hiss source, associated fricative filters and a mixer. Control
voltages independently varied formant frequencies, amplitudes and
bandwidths and selected appropriate fricative shaping. The device
was attached to a Honeywell DDP-224 digital computer which
updated two 24 bit output registers at 4-10 ms. intervals (40
bits were required to update all control parameters). I.G.
Mattingly based his synthesis by rule program for the DDP-224
computer on his earlier work at the Joint Speech Research Unit,
Eastcote, UK in 1963-64 with J. Holmes and J. Shearme." (PWN)


1965 Epstein, R., "A transistorized formant-type synthesizer,"
     Status Report on Speech Research, SR-1, Haskins
     Laboratories, 7.1-7.6, (1965). (see SSSHP USA Haskins Labs
     file)


1967 Gaitenby, J.H., "Rules for word stress analysis: for
     conversion of print to synthetic speech," J. Acoust. Soc.
     Amer., 42, 1182(A), (1967).

     SSSHP 66.16 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn, 6 sen: "There are many books of Christmas stories
          ...  used in this demonstration.")
          7"reel, good quality


1967 Mattingly, I.G., "Experimental methods for speech synthesis
     by rule", (1) 1967 Conf. on Speech Communication and
     Processing, MIT, Cambridge, MA, Nov 6-8, 1967. (2) IEEE
     Trans. Audio and Electro., AU-16/2, June 1968, 198-202. (I,K)
     The Conference included the following survey tape of various
     speech processing techniques, compiled by AFCRL (see SSSHP
     USA AFCRL file.)

     SSSHP 81.7b Tape: "SPEECH ANALYSIS/SYNTHESIS DEMONSTRATION,
          COPY NO. 2-9, T 67.2".
          (syn, 13 sen:  "He took a walk every morning.  ...
          We've changed the measures.  If you receive a malicious
          or ...  telephone business office.")
          7" reel, 7.5 ips, good quality, IBM's copy of master


     Haggard, M.P., and I.G. Mattingly, "A simple program for
     synthesizing British English", IEEE Trans. Audio and
     Electro., 16/1 95-99 (1968).  (I)

     SSSHP 81.7c Tape: "SPEECH ANALYSIS/SYNTHESIS DEMONSTRATION,
          COPY NO. 2-9, T 67.2". Examples by M. Haggard.
          (syn, 23 sec: "Speech is extraordinarily resistant to
          ...  phonetic description."; 19 sen: "He took a walk
          every morning.  ...  We've changed the measures.")
          7" reel, 7.5 ips, good quality, IBM's copy of master


1968 Mattingly, I.G., "Synthesis by rule of General American
     English", Ph.D. Thesis, and published as a "Supplement to
     Status Report on Speech Research," Haskins Laboratories, New
     York/New Haven CN, 1-223 (1968).  (I,K) Demonstration tape
     to illustrate the Ph.D. thesis.

     SSSHP 66.17 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn, 3:59 min: "You are listening to speech ...,";
          phonemes; stress and intonation; single and
          poly-syllable words and phrases; "Give me a breath of
          fresh air. ... A bird in the hand is worth ... Ignatius
          Mattingly.")
          7"reel

     SSSHP 32.20 Tape: Demo to accompany "Review of Text-to-speech
          conversion for English," D.H.  Klatt, JASA 82.3, 9/87.
          (4 sen: "You are listening to speech ... heard
          immediately.")
          Cassette, Klatt MIT A/D and D/A


1969 Cooper, F.S., J.H. Gaitenby, I.G. Mattingly, and N. Umeda,
     "Reading aids for the blind: a special case of
     machine-to-man communication", IEEE Trans. on Audio and
     Electro., Vol AU-17/4, December 1969, 266-270.  Presented at
     IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications, Boulder CO, June 9-11,
     1969. (I)  Umeda parsing procedure with Mattingly
     synthesis-by-rule. First passage was synthesized by art
     using hand selected phonetics, stress, etc.; the second
     passage was synthesized entirely by rule.

     SSSHP 66.18 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn by art, 6 sen: "The North Wind and the Sun were
          arguing ...  Sun was the stronger of the two.")
          (syn by rule, 10 sen, 1:22 min: "Some Early Research in
          Animal Communication, by Mark Twain. ...  for a
          word.")
          7"reel, good quality

     SSSHP 32.26 Tape: Demo to accompany "Review of Text-to-speech
          conversion for English," D.H. Klatt, JASA 82.3, 9/87.
          (6 sen: "Early Research in Animal Communication, by Mark
          Twain. Animals ...  he told me so himself.")
          Cassette, Klatt MIT A/D and D/A


1971 Cooper, F.S., "Progress toward a reading machine for the
     blind", on tape, "THE HUMAN VOICE AND THE COMPUTER, IEEE
     SOUNDINGS, No. 70-S-04, Ed. by Dr. Walter R. Beam, Aug 1,
     1971".  Commercial cassette of expert discussion.

     SSSHP 82.3 Tape: "THE HUMAN VOICE AND THE COMPUTER, IEEE
          SOUNDINGS, Aug 1971".  Phonetic input to formant
          synthesizer, Mattingly rules for synthesis.  Speaking
          rate increases from 130 to 220 words/min. Same as SSSHP
          66.18.
          (syn, 6 sen:"The North Wind and the Sun were ... the
          stronger of the two.")
          Commercial cassette, fair quality

     SSSHP 82.3 Tape: "THE HUMAN VOICE AND THE COMPUTER, IEEE
          SOUNDINGS, Aug 1971".  Simulation of automatic
          text-to-speech.  Manual lookup of dictionary
          pronunciation, juncture and stress by N. Umeda
          algorithms, and computer synthesis using Mattingly
          rules. Same as SSSHP 66.18.
          (syn, 10 sen: "Summary of research in animal
          communication, by Mark Twain. ... jay get stuck for a
          word.")
          (syn, 4 sen: "You will now hear a few pages from
          Steinbeck's ... Nothing has worked.")
          Commercial cassette, fair quality


1971 Mattingly, I.G., "Synthesis by rule as a tool for
     phonological research", Language and Speech, 14, 47-56
     (1971).  (I)


1972 Gaitenby, J.H., G.N. Sholes, and G.M. Kuhn, "Word and phrase
     stress by rule for a reading Machine," Status Report on
     Speech Research, SR-29/30, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven
     CT, 105-110 (1972).  (K)  Also: Conference Record, Conf. on
     Speech Commun. and Proc., Newton MA, 24-26, Paper A4, April
     1972.

     SSSHP 66.19 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          ("S-19", 5 sen: "This is the voice ...", words, phrases,
           12 sen)
          7"reel


1973 Nye, P.W., and J.H. Gaitenby, "Consonant intelligibility in
     synthetic speech and in a natural speech control (Modified
     Rhyme Test results)," Status Report on Speech Research,
     SR-33, Haskins Laboratories, 77-91, (1973).  Examples of
     Modified Rhyme Test stimuli.

     SSSHP 66.20 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn, 8 test sentences: "Please mark the word ...
          mark the word, dust.")
          7"reel, good quality


     Cooper, F.S., J.H. Gaitenby, I.G. Mattingly, P.W. Nye, and
     G.N. Sholes, "Audible outputs of reading machines for the
     blind," Status Report on Speech Research SR-35/36, Haskins
     Laboratories, New Haven CT, 117-120 (1973). Mattingly rules,
     letter-to-sound rules, 140,000-word Kenyon and Knott
     phonemic dictionary from June Shoup of SCRL.  (K)


     Nye, P., J. Hankins, T. Rand, I. Mattingly, and F. Cooper,
     "A plan for the field evaluation of an automated reading
     system for the blind," IEEE Trans. Audio and Electro., AU-21,
     265-268 (1973). (K)  The tape recording is "An extract from
     "Risks Records and Rescues" -- a passage about tunnel
     building synthesized by means of an alphabetically spelled
     input text automatically converted into phonetic form by
     means of a modified Kenyon and Knott dictionary obtained
     from the SCRL (see SSSHP USA Speech Communication Research
     Laboratory file), and then synthesized using the Mattingly
     rules." (PWN)

     SSSHP 66.21 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn, 30 sen, 4:55 min: "Just as a plan to climb ...
          danger and death are always lurking.")
          7"reel, good quality


1974 Nye, P., and J.  Gaitenby, "The intelligibility of synthetic
     monosyllable words in short, syntactically normal sentences,"
     Status Report on Speech Research SR-37/38, Haskins
     Laboratories, New Haven CT, 169-190 (1974).  Haskins
     Anomalous sentences.  (K)

     SSSHP 66.22 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project,
          #808, Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye"
          (syn, 7 sen:"The wrong shot led the farm....
          The rich paint said the land.")
          7"reel, good quality


1978 Ingemann, F., "Speech synthesis by rule using the FOVE
     Program," Status Report on Speech Research SR-54, Haskins
     Laboratories, New Haven CT, 165-173 (1978).  Synthesis using
     a copy of the hardware synthesizer OVE-III (see SSSHP Sweden
     RIT file.)  (K)



1980 "Early in the 80s Haskins gave up hardware synthesis. 
     Software synthesizers at Haskins since then include SYN, a 
     serial/parallel software synthesizer; ASY and CASY, 
     articulatory synthesizers, and SWS, a sine-wave synthesizer."
     (communication from Ignatius G. Mattingly, 4/26/99, SSSHP
      USA Haskins file)


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BIOGRAPHIES


ARTHUR S. ABRAMSON

1949 B.A. from Yeshiva University
1951 M.A. from Columbia University
1958 Ph.D. in linguistics, Columbia University
1959 Haskins Laboratories, Academic Associate


THOMAS BAER

1969 B.S & M.S. in electrical engineering, Mass. Inst. Tech
1975 Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Mass. Inst. Tech
1976 Haskins Laboratories, Research staff
1989 Resigned


JOHN M. BORST

1920 Graduated Engineering College, Delft
1946 Haskins Laboratories, Engineer
1965 Retired
1990 Deceased


FRANKLIN S. COOPER

1931 B.S. in Engr. physics from Univ of Illinois, Urbana
1936 Ph.D. in physics from Mass. Inst. Tech, Cambridge, MA
     General Elect Co.
1939 Haskins Laboratories, Assoc. Research Director
1955 President and Research Director
1975 Retired
1999 Deceased, Palo Alto, CA


PIERRE C. DELATTRE*

1931 M.A. from University of Paris
1934-41 Wayne University, Detroit
1941-57 Director, Remedial Phonetics, French Summer Program,
     Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
1936 Ph.D. in linguistics, Univ. of Michigan
     Institut de Phonetique, Sorbonne, Paris, France
1941 University of Oklahoma
1947 University of Pennsylvania, Romance languages
1950 Academic Associate, Haskins Laboratories
1953 Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder CO, Romance
     Languages and French
1964 University of California at Santa Barbara CA, French and
     Italian languages
1969 Deceased, Santa Barbara CA

* - From tape SSSHP 15: "Telephone Interviews - H. D. Maxey"


ROBERT EPSTEIN

    no record available


JANE H. GAITENBY (Mrs. Joseph J. Newman)

1953 B.A. in anthropology from Hunter College, NY
1953-56 graduate work in linguistics and anthro., Columbia Univ.
1957 Haskins Laboratories, Research staff
1984 Deceased


LOUIS J. GERSTMAN

1949 B.A. from University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
1951 Haskins Laboratories, staff
1952 M.A. from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1957 Ph.D. from New York Univ., New York, NY
1959 Resigned


MARK P. HAGGARD  (see SSSHP UK Univ. of Cambridge page)


KATHERINE S. HARRIS

1947 B.A. from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1952 Haskins Laboratories, Research staff
1954 Ph.D. in psychology from Radcliffe and Harvard
1966 Vice President


FRANCES INGEMANN

1949 B.A. from New Jersey State Teachers College, Montclair
1950 M.A. from Columbia University, New York, NY
1956 Ph.D. in linguistics, Indiana Univ., Bloomington
     Haskins Laboratories, Academic Associate
1959 Resigned


GARY M. KUHN

1968 B.A. from Saint Lawrence Univ., Canton, NY
1969 M.A. from Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT/Sorbonne
1970 Haskins Laboratories, Research Assistant
1977 Resigned to take up post at IDA
1978 Ph.D. in psychology, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT


ALVIN M. LIBERMAN

1936 A.B. from University of Missouri, Columbia
1939 M.A. from University of Missouri, Columbia
1942 Ph.D. in psychology, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT
1944 Haskins Laboratories, Academic Associate
1975 President and Research Director
1966 Senior Vice President


LEIGH LISKER

1938 B.A. from University of Pennsylvania
1944 M.A. University of Pennsylvania
1949 Ph.D. in linguistics, Univ. of Pennsylvania
1953 Haskins Laboratories, Academic Associate


IGNATIUS G. MATTINGLY

1947 B.A. in English, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1951-66 Analyst, National Security Agency, U.S.A.
1959 M.A. in linguistics, Harvard University
1963-64 Guest Researcher, Joint Speech Research Unit, Eastcote, U.K.
1966 Haskins Laboratories and Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs
1968 Ph.D. in English, Yale University
1996 Retired from Yale University


PAUL MERMELSTEIN

1959 B. Eng. from McGill University, Montreal, P.Q.
1964 M.Sc. & D.Sc. in electrical engineering, Mass. Inst. Tech.
1964-73 Bell Telephone Laboratories, New Jersey
1973 Research staff, Haskins Laboratories
1977 Mgr., Speech Comm. Systems, Bell-Northern Research, Montreal


PATRICK W. NYE

1958 B.Sc. from Reading University
1962 Ph.D. in physics, Reading University
1962-71 National Physics Lab., UK; California Inst. Tech.
1971 Haskins Laboratories, Research staff
1975 Associate Director of Research


PHILIP E. RUBIN

1967 B.A. from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1971 M.A. from University of Connecticut, Storrs
1975 Ph.D. in psychology, Univ. of Connecticut
1976 Haskins Laboratories, Research staff


DONALD P. SHANKWEILER

1956 B.A. from Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
1960 M.A. & Ph.D. in psychology, Univ. of Iowa
1962-64 McGill University, Montreal, P.Q.
1964 University of Connecticut
1965 Haskins Laboratories, Academic Associate


GEORGE N. SHOLES

1949 B.A. from Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
1952 M.A. from Middlebury College
1958 Ph.D. in linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington
     Haskins Laboratories, Research staff
1977 Resigned


MICHAEL G. STUDDERT-KENNEDY

1951 B.A. in classics, Jesus College, Cambridge Univ.
1957 Ph.D. in psychology, Columbia Univ., New York, NY
1961 Haskins Laboratories, Academic Associate
1986 President and Research Director


NORIKO UMEDA  (see SSSHP JAPAN Electrotechnical Laboratory page)
 
 
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CONTRIBUTIONS AND REVIEW BY:

Dr. Patrick W. Nye      (history and tape recordings)
Dr. Franklin S. Cooper  (history, SSSHP Advisor)
Haskins Laboratories
270 Crown Street
New Haven, CT 06511

(Quoted material "PWN" is from a personal communication from 
P.W. Nye to H.D. Maxey 8/1/89. See SSSHP USA Haskins Laboratories
file.)

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