SSSHP 1 Votrax VS4 Phoneme Parameter Matrix board
SSSHP 2 Votrax VS4 " " " "
SSSHP 3 Votrax VS6 Vocal Tract board
SSSHP 4 Votrax VS6 Articulation board
SSSHP 5 Votrax VS6 Phoneme Buffer board
SSSHP 6 Votrax VS6 ROM #1 Parameter board
SSSHP 7 Votrax VS6 ROM #2 Parameter board
SSSHP 8 Tape: "Votrax VS4, VS6, VS6G2 Synthesizers, various
synthesizers from R.T. Gagnon, 7/3/88", Cassette
Items 1-8 received 5/88 from R. T. Gagnon, Gagnon
Electronics and Research Co., 2097 Addaleen, Milford MI
48042, (in SSSHP USA VOTRAX file)
SSSHP 9 Tape: "Speech Synthesis, W.A. Ainsworth, University of
Keele, 17/8/88", 7" reel
SSSHP 10 Reprint: "A Speech Synthesizer Controlled by a PDP/338",
W. A. Ainsworth
SSSHP 11 Reprint: "A System for Converting English Text into
Speech", W. A. Ainsworth
SSSHP 12 Reprint: "Performance of a Speech Synthesis System",
W. A. Ainsworth
SSSHP 13 Reprint: "Allophonic variations of stop consonants in a
speech synthesis-by-rule program", W.A. Ainsworth and
J.B. Millar
Items 9-13 received 8/88 from Dr. William A. Ainsworth,
Dept. of Comm. and Neuroscience, Univ. of Keele, Keele,
Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom (in SSSHP UK
Univ. of Keele file)
SSSHP 14 Reprint: "Speech Researches in the Electrotechnical
Laboratory", Electro Technical Laboratory, Japan,
1968. Unpublished (?) summary of recent work. Donated
by H. David Maxey, 11/88. (in SSSHP Japan ETL file)
SSSHP 15 Tape: "Telephone Interviews", cassette, H.D. Maxey's
interviews with informants for History Project.
SSSHP 16 Report: ANNUAL BULLETIN NO. 2, Research Institute of
Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Univ.
of Tokyo, March 1968. Donated by H. David Maxey,
11/88 (in SSSHP Japan Univ. of Tokyo file)
SSSHP 17 Tape: "TSI Speech Reading System Announcement (VC 003T),
12/12/77", Cassette
SSSHP 18 Tape: "Telesensory System & Speech Plus Compilation of
1979-86 Tapes", made 9/11/88, Cassette
SSSHP 19 Product Brochures and Paper Reprints: Optacon, Speech +
Calculator, Prose 2000 Text-to-Speech Converter, Call-
Text Voice Gateway, technical papers
Items 17-19 received 12/2/88 and 1/30/89 from Dr.
Gabriel F. Groner, Speech Plus, Inc. (in SSSHP USA
Telesensory Systems, Inc. file)
SSSHP 20 Product Brochures: Xerox/Kurzweil Personal Reader, 2
pages, (in SSSHP USA Kurzweil Computer Products file)
SSSHP 21 Tape: "Xerox/Kurzweil Personal Reader Demonstration
Tape", Cassette
SSSHP 22 Tape: "KRM Series 400 Demonstration", 1984, Cassette
Items 20-22 received 1/3/89 from Mr. Randall Stern,
Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. (see SSSHP USA
Kurzweil Computer Products file)
SSSHP 23 Reprint: "A speech synthesis system by rule in Japanese
at Kyushu Geikodai: GK-SS4/5", R. Teranishi, The Second
Symposium on Advanced Man-Machine Interface Through
Spoken Language, Nov 19-22, Makaha, Oahu, Hawaii,
1988. (2 copies in SSSHP JAPAN Kyushu Institute of
Design file)
SSSHP 24 Reprint: "A speech synthesis system by rule in
Japanese", R. Teranishi, Poster Session J 14, The
Second Symposium on Advanced Man-Machine Interface
Through Spoken Language, Nov 19-22, Makaha, Oahu,
Hawaii, 1988. (2 copies in SSSHP JAPAN Kyushu Institute
of Design file)
SSSHP 25 Reports: Five ETL News (1964-1968), originals and photo-
copies with notes in English. (in SSSHP JAPAN Electro
Technical Laboratory file)
SSSHP 26 Record: "Speech Synthesis by Rule", Electrotechnical
Laboratory, 1969, flexible 33 1/3 RPM record, 3 copies
(in SSSHP JAPAN Electro Technical Laboratory file)
SSSHP 27 Reprint: "Sleeping Beauty", Grimm's Fairy Tales, input
to ETL text to speech system demonstration (in SSSHP
JAPAN Electro Technical Laboratory file)
Items 23-27 received 12/20/88 from Dr. R. Teranishi,
Kyushu Institute of Design (in SSSHP JAPAN Electro
Technical Laboratory file)
SSSHP 28 Reprints: 16 reprints of NTT papers (in SSSHP JAPAN NTT
file)
SSSHP 29 Tape: "NTT-1, NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Sadaoki
Furui, Jan 13, 1989", 7" reel.
SSSHP 30 Tape: "NTT-2, NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Hirokazu
Sato & Sadaoki Furui, Dec 27, 1988", 7" reel.
Items 28-30 received 1/13/89 from Dr. Sadaoki Furui,
NTT (see SSSHP JAPAN Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
file)
SSSHP 31 Tape: "TSI Demo, Jared Bernstein, Nov. 11, 1980", recei-
ved from Dr. Jared Bernstein 11/11/80, Telesensory
Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (see SSSHP USA Telesensory
Systems, Inc. file), 4" reel.
SSSHP 32 Tape: "Text-to-Speech History, D. Klatt, ASA Demo, Copy
2, 2/87". Demo to accompany "Review of Text-to-speech
conversion for English," D.H. Klatt, JASA 82.3, Sept.
1987. Cassette, made directly from Klatt's computer via
D/A conversion. Received from Dr. D.H. Klatt, MIT, Feb.
1987 (see SSSHP USA Massachusetts Institute of Tech.
file)
SSSHP 33 Tape: "MITalk, TSI Comparisons (Pisoni Tests) 1980".
(See SSSHP USA Telesensory Systems, Inc. file). Copy of
tape dated 9/26/80 from Dr. N. R. Dixon, IBM. Cassette,
good quality, on both left and right tracks.
SSSHP 34 Company Newsletters: THE KURZWEIL REPORT (3 issues,
Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1978, to Number 3, Spring 1979)
donated by H. D. Maxey, and KURZWEIL READING MACHINE
UPDATE (11 issues, No. 1, Winter 1980 to No. 11, Fall
1987), received 2/9/89 from Mr. Randall Stern, Kurzweil
Computer Products, Inc. (see SSSHP USA Kurzweil Compu-
ter Products file)
SSSHP 35 Product Manuals: Votrax Audio Response System
Operators Manual (VS-6.0), and Votrax Audio Response
System Operators Manual (ML-I Multilingual Voice
System), donated by H.D. Maxey. (in SSSHP USA Votrax
file)
SSSHP 36 Program Listing: PL/1 source code for converting input
sentences into control signal sequences for ETL's analog
vocal tract simulator II.
SSSHP 37 Program Listing: Sample listing of input and output for
program SSSHP 36.
SSSHP 38 Tape: "Sleeping Beauty, synthesized by rule, Electro-
technical Laboratory, Tokyo, August, 1968", 3" reel.
SSSHP 39 Tape: "Speech Synthesis by Rule: ETL (1969)", Cassette.
Items 36-39 received 3/2/89 from R. Teranishi, Kyushu
Institute of Design (in SSSHP JAPAN Electro Technical
Laboratory file)
SSSHP 40 Computer Program: "An original text-to-speech system in
Japanese, GK-SS4/5 (1988,10) Series No. 03". Text-to-
speech system GK-SS4/5 on 5" computer diskette for NEC
PC-9800 machine (or equivalent).
SSSHP 41 Computer Data: "GK-SS4/5 Sample Data". Computer data on
5" computer diskette.
SSSHP 42 Tape: "A SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM BY RULE IN JAPANESE,
Sample of the Synthesized Speech. by R. Teranishi",
Cassette. Sample output of the SSSHP 40 system.
SSSHP 43 Manual: "An original text-to-speech system in Japanese,
GK-SS4/5 (1988,10)". Operation manual of the system in
SSSHP 40.
Items 40-43 received 3/2/89 from R. Teranishi, Kyushu
Institute of Design (in SSSHP JAPAN Kyushu Institute
of Design file)
SSSHP 44 Tape: "NTT-3, Sadaoki Furui (NTT), Feb. 15, 1989", 7"
reel. Itakura and Saito's demonstration tape for 6th ICA
in Tokyo, maximum likelihood method, 1968. Received
2/16/89 from Dr. Sadaoki Furui, NTT (see SSSHP JAPAN
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. file)
SSSHP 45 Tape: "Text-to-Speech in Japanese (standard reading)",
Kyushu Inst. of Design speech synthesis system,
cassette.
SSSHP 46 Reprint: "A system for speech synthesis by rule in
Japanese-Conversion from Kana-text to speech," Kaburagi,
T., K. Suzuki, K. Shiraki, M. Ueno, and R. Teranishi,
Trans. of Comm. on Sp. Research, Acoust. Soc. Japan,
S85-44, October 17, 1985, pp 333-340 (in Japanese).
Items 45-46 received April, 1986, from R. Teranishi,
Kyushu Institute of Design (see SSSHP JAPAN Kyushu
Institute of Design file)
SSSHP 47 Tape: "Genesis of Speech Synthesis in Japan, Radio
Research Laboratories, MPT (Communications Res. Lab.),
1959-1960, Edited by Jouji Suzuki, CRL, 2-Mar-1989".
Received 3/20/89 from Dr. Jouji Suzuki, Communications
Research Laboratory, Japan (see SSSHP Japan Radio Re-
search Laboratory file) 5" reel
SSSHP 48 Tape: "Text-to-Speech Synthesis Using Dyads", M.Y.
Liberman & J.P. Olive, 12-88", cassette, AT&T Bell
Laboratories.
SSSHP 49 Tape: "Digital Speech Coding, R. V. Cox, 4-29-88",
Cassette, various coding methods from 64 kb/s to 2.4
kb/s, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
SSSHP 50 Tape: "J.L. Flanagan and K.I. Ishizaka, Vocal Cord-
Vocal Tract Synthesizer, ASA Meeting, Austin, TX, 4-
10-75", cassette, from Coker text-to-speech articula-
tory model, AT&T Bell Laboratories. Published IEEE
TASSP, Vol. ASSP-24, No. 2, April 1976, pp. 163-170.
SSSHP 51 Tape: "AT&T Bell Labs VODER from World's Fair Exhibits
(New York, San Francisco) 1939-40 era", cassette, AT&T
Bell Laboratories.
SSSHP 52 Tape: "Text-to-Speech Synthesis from an Articulatory
Model, C.H. Coker, 1-28-80", cassette, AT&T Bell Labor-
atories.
SSSHP 53 Photo: "New York World's Fair 1939", Bell Telephone
Laboratory exhibit building. 8x10
SSSHP 54 Photo: "NY World's Fair 1939", Bell Telephone Laboratory
exhibit audience. 8x10
SSSHP 55 Photo: "Voder 1939 NY World' Fair", Bell Telephone Lab-
oratory exhibit. 8x10
SSSHP 56 Photo: "Voder 1939", Bell Telephone Laboratory exhibit,
Voder operator. 8x10
SSSHP 57 Photo: "San Francisco World's Fair 1940", Bell Telephone
Laboratory exhibit building. 8x10
SSSHP 58 Record: "Speech Coding", demonstration recording to
accompany paper of the same name, IEEE Trans. on Comm.,
Vol. COM-27, No. 4, April 1979, pp. 710-737. 7", 33 1/3
rpm, plastic
SSSHP 59 Record: "Synthetic Voices for Computers", demonstration
recording to accompany paper of the same name, IEEE
Spectrum, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 1970, pp. 22-45. 7",
flexible plastic, 33 1/3 rpm, two copies.
Items 48-59 received 3/23/89 from Dr. James L. Flanagan,
AT&T Bell Laboratories (see SSSHP USA Bell Telephone
Laboratories file for photos and records.)
SSSHP 60 Report: "UNIVERSITY TO INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: A
CASE STUDY IN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY", R. S. Goldhor and
R.T. Lund, Center for Policy Alternatives, MIT,
Cambridge, MA 02139, November, 1981. Photocopy.
Donated by Dr. Gabriel F. Groner, Speech Plus, Inc.,
3/11/89. (see SSSHP USA Telesensory Systems Inc. file)
SSSHP 61 Tape: "NTT-4, Sadaoki Furui (NTT), Apr. 12, 1989", 7"
reel. Text-to-speech conversion, LSP/CV synthesis.
Received 4/12/89 from Dr. Sadaoki Furui, NTT (see SSSHP
JAPAN Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. file)
SSSHP 62 Tape: "Speech synthesis by rule supplementarily using
natural speech segments", NEC Corp., copied by Yukio
Mitome, Jan. 31, 1989", cassette.
SSSHP 63 Tape: "A terminal analog speech synthesizer in a small
computer (TV commercial), NEC Corp., copied by Yukio
Mitome, Jan. 31, 1989", cassette.
SSSHP 64 Tape: "Japanese speech synthesis system in a book
reader for the blind", NEC Corp., copied by Yukio
Mitome, Jan. 31, 1989", cassette.
Items 62-64 received May 25, 1989, from Mr. Yukio
Mitome, NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan (see SSSHP JAPAN NEC
Corp. file)
SSSHP 65 Tape: "Side A - Speech Synthesis by Rule" and "Side B
- Efficient Speech Coding", Hitachi, Ltd., compiled by
A. Ichikawa and S. Takeda June 1989, cassette. Received
from Mr. S. Takeda, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, July 1,
1989. (see SSSHP JAPAN Hitachi, Ltd., file). Tape and
outline are considered proprietary by Hitachi.
SSSHP 66 Tape: "Smithsonian Speech Synthesis Project, #808,
Haskins Laboratories, Dr. Patrick W. Nye, recorded
April, 1989", 7" reel. Received 8/1/89 from Dr.
Patrick W. Nye, Haskins Laboratories (see SSSHP USA
Haskins Laboratories file)
SSSHP 67 Tape: "Tape 1, Synthesized speech reported in the 1966
ETL News #197", Hiroshi Ohmura, ETL, copied June 27,
1989. Cassette.
SSSHP 68 Tape: "Tape 2, Dr. Matsui's demo in 1968", Hiroshi
Ohmura, ETL, copied June 27, 1989. Cassette.
SSSHP 69 Tape: "Tape 3, Speech sounds of the ETL acoustic model
in 1965", Hiroshi Ohmura, ETL, copied June 27, 1989.
Cassette.
SSSHP 70 Tape: "Tape 4, 'Sleeping Beauty' copied from the
original tape", Hiroshi Ohmura, ETL, copied June 27,
1989. Cassette.
SSSHP 71 Tape: "Tape 5, Japanese 'tongue twisters' copied from
the original tape", Hiroshi Ohmura, ETL, copied June
27, 1989. Cassette.
Items 67-71 received October 7, 1989, from Dr. Takayuki
Nakajima, Director, Machine Understanding Division,
Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba Science City,
Japan
SSSHP 72 Tape: "Smithsonian Seminar, H.D. Maxey 6/87", demon-
stration tape for seminar on this history project at
the Smithsonian. Cassette.
SSSHP 73 Tape: "Maxey Smithsonian Seminar 5/26/89", demon-
stration tape for seminar on this history project at
the Smithsonian. Cassette.
Items 72-73 donated by H.D. Maxey, 5/27/90.
SSSHP 74 Plastic Belts: Three 6"x24" plastic control belts for
Haskins Laboratories Voback synthesizer. Donated by Mrs
E.T. Uldall, Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland,
5/18/90.
SSSHP 75 Reprints, brochures: Received from Mr. S. Takeda,
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 1989. See SSSHP
Japan Hitachi, Ltd., file.
SSSHP 76 Reprints, Brochures: Reprints and sales brochures for
Computalker CT-1 Speech Synthesizer. In SSSHP USA
Computalker Consultants file. Donated by H.D. Maxey,
August 1990.
SSSHP 77 Tape: "JSRU DEMO SYNTHESIS 1965. Synthesis
demonstration from JSRU, England, prepared by John
Holmes, 1965 plus other brief excerpts of unknown
origin. Copy by K. Stevens 7/30/90." Copy of MIT's
copy, donated by Dr. K. Stevens, MIT, July 31, 1990.
5" reel. See SSSHP UK JSRU file. Copyright by British
Post Office.
SSSHP 78 Reprints: NEC Corp., Japan. Received from Mr. Yukio
Mitome, NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan, June 19, 1989. In
SSSHP Japan NEC Corp. file.
SSSHP 79 Reprints: Radio Research Laboratories, Japan,
publications. Received from Dr. Jouji Suzuki,
Communications Research Laboratory, Japan, 4/27/89. In
SSSHP Japan RRL file.
SSSHP 80 Tape: "SCP Master #942". Human speech source tape for
testing various speech processing techniques. Results
on SSSHP 81. Prepared by Caldwell Smith, AFCRL, L.G.
Hanscom Field, Bedford Mass, May 1967. 7" reel.
SSSHP 81 Tape: "Speech Analysis/Synthesis Demonstration, Copy
No. 2-9,". Results of processing tape SSSHP 80. Demo
at 1967 Conf. on Speech Comm. and Proc., MIT, Nov 6-8,
1967. Prepared by Caldwell Smith, AFCRL, L.G. Hanscom
Field, Bedford Mass, Nov 1967. 7" reel.
SSSHP 82 Tape: "The Human Voice and the Computer, IEEE
Soundings," No. 70-S-04, Ed. by Dr. Walter R. Beam,
Aug 1, 1971. Commercial cassette
SSSHP 83 Tape: "Some Reminiscences on Speech Research, Franklin
S. Cooper, 4/25/72, '72 SCP". Copied from plastic
diskette with IEEE Trans. Acoust. & Electro., Vol
AU-21, No 3, June 1973. Cassette
Items 80-83 donated by H.D. Maxey, Aug 23, 1990.
SSSHP 84 Tape: "PAT - synthesized intonations. B: 'He'll be
here on Friday'." Fourteen 23" tape loops in 3 3/4" by
1 1/2" circular tin box, circa 1962.
SSSHP 85 Plastic Belt: Voback transparent belt with black tape
for Haskins Laboratories synthesizer, circa 1959.
Items 84 and 85 donated by Mrs E.T. Uldall, Univ. of
Edinburgh, Scotland, 5/9/90. See SSSHP UK Edinburgh
file.
SSSHP 86 Tape: "TUm - Synthesis from Neuromoter command,
Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku
Univ." 7" reel
SSSHP 87 Tape: "TUc - Synthesis of Chinese tone, Research
Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku Univ."
7" reel
SSSHP 88 Tape: "TUp - Synthesis of pathological voices,
Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku
Univ." 7" reel
Items 86-88 contributed by Dr. Shizuo Hiki, School of
Human Sciences, Waseda Univ., Tokorozawa, Japan,
September 23, 1990.
SSSHP 89 Tapes: "K.N. Stevens' Review of History Outlines,"
discussion of history outlines, Professor K.N. Stevens
and H.D. Maxey at MIT, October 23, 1990. Two cassettes.
SSSHP 90 Tape: "MIT Machines That Talk".
SSSHP 91 Tape: "MIT Demo Tape 1".
SSSHP 92 Tape: "MIT Demo Tape 2".
SSSHP 93 Tape: "MIT Demo Tape 3".
Tapes SSSHP 90-93 copied by H.D. Maxey from MIT tape
archives in the Research Laboratory of Electronics,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, with assistance of
Prof. K.N. Stevens, October, 1990.
SSSHP 94 Tape: "PAT - Synthesized Intonations, circa 1962",
cassette copy of SSSHP 84, fourteen tape loops of Univ.
of Edinburgh PAT synthesizer, copied by H.D. Maxey
1/91.
SSSHP 95 Videotape: "Stephen Hawking: The Universe Within", tape
of physicist Stephen Hawking using a speech synthesizer
to recount his career. MIT Professor Dennis Klatt
identified the synthesizer as a PROSE 2000 from
Telesensory Systems, Inc. Videotape was broadcast on
the Public Broadcasting System. Copy of tape donated by
Ms. Teri H. Flinchum, Cabisco Teleproductions, Carolina
Biological Supply Company, Burlington NC, April 10,
1991. This tape is proprietary to Carolina Biological
Supply Co and copies must be obtained from them (see
SSSHP USA Telesensory Systems, Inc. correspondence for
prices).
SSSHP 96 Reprints: Reprints of MIT/RLE papers.
SSSHP 97 VITAE: Curriulum vitae of J. Allen, D.H. Klatt, and
K.N. Stevens of MIT
Items SSSHP 96 and 97 donated by Prof. K.N. Stevens,
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.,
October, 1990.
SSSHP 98 Reprints: Reprints of Bell Telephone Laboratories'
papers. Received 3/23/89 from Dr. James L. Flanagan,
AT&T Bell Laboratories (see SSSHP USA Bell Telephone
Laboratories file)
SSSHP 99 Tape: "Synthetic Voices for Computers, BTL, 1970". Copy
of disk record SSSHP59, demonstration recording to
accompany Flanagan, J.L., C.H. Coker, L.R. Rabiner, R.W.
Schafer, and N. Umeda, "Synthetic voices for computers",
IEEE Spectrum, 7, 22-45 (1970). Copied by H.D. Maxey,
6/21/91.
SSSHP 100 Reprint: "La machine parlante de Kempelen," J.S.
Lienard, Bulletin du Groupe d'Acoustique Musicale,
Faculte des Sciences, 8 Rue Cuvier, Paris 5th, No. 34,
25 pp., March 1968. Contributed by Prof. K.N. Stevens at
MIT, October 1990. In SSSHP USA Early Laboratories file.
SSSHP 101 Computer Program: "A text-to-speech system in Japanese
(revised), GK-SS5 (1991,03) Series No. 10". Text-to-
speech system GK-SS5 on 5.25" 2HD computer diskette for
NEC PC-9801 machine (or equivalent).
SSSHP 102 Computer Data: "GK-SS5 (1991,03) Series No. 10". Sample
files on 5.25" 2HD computer diskette for NEC PC-9801
machine
SSSHP 103 Computer Program: "GK-SS5 System, source files are
stored for the access on IBM PC-AT". 3.5" 2DD 720 kB
computer diskette.
SSSHP 104 Manual: "A Text-To-Speech System in Japanese (revised).
GK-SS5 (1991,03) Series No. 10". Operation manual of
the system of SSSHP 101, listings of source text files,
and directory listing of PC-9801 diskettes.
Items 101-104 received 8/20/91 from Prof. K. Fukudome,
Kyushu Institute of Design (in SSSHP JAPAN Kyushu
Institute of Design file)
SSSHP 105 Interview: "An Interview with Adrian Fourcin, Prof. of
Experimental Phonetics at University College London"
Transcription of recorded interview by Roger Bridgman,
Science Museum London. Received from Mr. Bridgmen
1/24/92. (In SSSHP UK University College London file.)
SSSHP 106 Tape: "Meet the Expert, 30 Jan 58, Dr. H.M. Truby",
Recording of BBC broadcast interview of Dr. Truby on
subject of speech phonetics and synthetic speech.
5" reel, 1 7/8 ips. (see SSSHP SWEDEN RIT file.)
SSSHP 165 is 3.5 ips 2nd generation copy.
SSSHP 107 Plastic Belt: "Initial clusters & affricates". 6"x83"
reflection-mode control pattern for Haskins
Laboratories PB2 synthesizer (see SSSHP USA Haskins
Laboratories file.)
SSSHP 108 Artifact: "Sund Spectrogram of CVCs". 31" of 35mm
spectrograms of speech by Sund Spectrometer, Dr. Hans
Sund, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, circa
1955 (see SSSHP SWEDEN RIT file.)
SSSHP 109 Artifact: "Smoke spectrogram". 7" x 86" plastic
photographic film of spectrograms of human speech,
circa 1950 (see SSSHP USA Haskins Laboratories file.)
SSSHP 110 Xerox Copy: "Smoke spectrogram". Xerox copy of SSSHP
109, by Dr. H.M. Truby, 4/22/92 (see SSSHP USA Haskins
Laboratories file.)
Items 106-110 received from Dr. H.M. Truby, 7050 Sunset
Drive, So. Miami, FL 33143, 4/22/92.
SSSHP 111 Reprints: Selected reprints of documents relating to
Texas Instruments' Speak & Spell technology. Received
from Paul S. Breedlove, 7/17/99 (see SSSHP USA Texas
Instruments file.) Some documents need permission to
be reproduced.
SSSHP 112 Book: THE ACOUSTICS OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION: Fundamentals,
Speech Perception Theory, and Technology, J.M. Pickett,
Allyn and Bacon, Boston, pp. 404, 1999. A gift to the
Smithsonian Speech Synthesis History collection from
Professor Pickett, 11/28/2000.
SSSHP 113 Artifact: Kit of parts and directions for constructing a
3-series-formant vowel synthesizer. Bell System aids to
high school science programs, 1963. (See SSSHP USA BTL)
Donated by H.D. Maxey, 4/18/2001.
SSSHP 114 Tape: "MITalk 79 speech from development, 1978-1979."
Analog copy of Digital Audio Tape of synthetic speech
samples. Cassette. (See SSSHP USA MIT)
SSSHP 115 Videotape: "MITalk '79. Part of Senior thesis work in
Prof. Jonathan Allen's group at MIT by Alex Waibel. No
titles, backup copy." VHS videotape, 1/2" tape, 7" reel.
(See SSSHP USA MIT)
Items 114, 115 donated by Sheri Hunnicutt, Dept. of
Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH (Royal Institute of
Technology), Stockholm, Sweden, June 29, 2001.
SSSHP 116 Tape: BBN Phonetic Vocoder, 5" reel, 7 1/2 ips,
Maxey T85.1. Donated by Richard M. Schwartz, BBN
Laboratories Inc., 10 Moulton St., Cambridge, MA
02238, May 8, 1985.
SSSHP 117 Tape: "IBM Diphone Speech Synthesis, WALRUS System,
circa 1984." Donated by Clifford A. Pickover, IBM
Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,
NY 10598, April 20, 2001.
SSSHP 118 Tape: "Voice Output from Computers, Course 430,
Integrated Computers Systems, 1980." Survey tape for
commercial course.
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SSSHP 119 Tape: "Lawrence - PAT / U of M, 12-15-61"
(Maxey Tape T61.1)
SSSHP 120 Tape: "Univ. of Michigan - Examples" (Maxey Tape T61.2)
Tapes SSSHP 119 and 120 were obtained by IBM from the
Univ. of Michigan Communication Sciences Laboratory,
December, 1961. Referenced in SSSHP under each labora-
tory's name.
SSSHP 121 Tape: "Dr. Delattre's talk on cues, 11/17/61," Parts 1
and 2, 7" reel, 3.75 ips, see SSSHP USA Haskins Labora-
tories. (Maxey Tape T61.3)
SSSHP 122 Tape: "Dr. Delattre's talk on cues, 11/17/61," Parts 3
and 4, 7" reel, 3.75 ips, see SSSHP USA Haskins Labora-
tories. (Maxey Tape T61.4)
Tapes SSSHP 121 and 122 were recorded by IBM at IBM
Research, San Jose, CA, when Pierre Delattre was a paid
consultant to IBM.
SSSHP 123 Tape: "BTL Demo Record/Hamlet, Daisy", 4" reel, 7.5 ips
Tape made from 33 1/3 rpm flexible diskette labeled
"Synthesized Speech", Bell Telephone Labs, 1961.
(Maxey Tape T61.5)
SSSHP 124 Tape: "Prof. Delattre's Pattern Playback Examples,
8/4/61", 4" reel,, 7.5 ips, see SSSHP USA Haskins Labora-
tories. Recorded for IBM at Pierre Delattre's laboratory,
Univ. of Colorado at Boulder. (Maxey Tape T61.6)
SSSHP 125 Tape: "SCS - 1962/Stockholm Vocoder Demo Tape Sept. 1962".
Produced by the Speech Transmission Lab., Royal Institute
of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Distributed at the
Stockholm Speech Communication Seminar. 7" reel, 7.5 ips.
(Maxey Tape T62.1)
SSSHP 126 Tape: "Stockholm Vocoder Demo. Tape, STL/RIT, Sept. 1962"
Copy of SSSHP 125, 7" reel. (Maxey Tape T62.2)
SSSHP 127 Tape: "Machines That Talk, MIT, 2/62", 7" reel, 7.5 ips.
Recorded at Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology. (Maxey Tape T62.3)
SSSHP 128 Tape: "Univ. of Mich. and MIT Demo Tapes, 1961", 7" reel
Copy of T61.2 and T62.3. (Maxey Tape T62.4)
SSSHP 129 Tape: "P.A.T. Demo 1962", E.T. Uldall, May, 1962,
5" reel. Received from E.T. Uldall. See SSSHP UK Edin-
burgh Univ. (Maxey Tape T62.5)
SSSHP 130 Tape: "P.G.E.C. Demonstration", IBM, 4" reel, 7.5 ips
(Maxey Tape T63.3)
SSSHP 131 Tape: "We wish you a merry Xmas", IBM, 3" reel, 7.5 ips
Master tape. (Maxey Tape T65.2)
SSSHP 132 Tape: "Archival Tape - H.D. Maxey, 3/65", IBM backup
copy of other laboratories' tapes, 7" reel, 7.5 ips.
(Maxey Tape T65.6)
SSSHP 133 Tape: "Speech Synthesis by Rule - JSRU England, 3/65",
3" rule (Demo for "Speech synthesis by rule," Language
& Speech, 1964.) Copy of IBM's copy. See SSSHP UK JSRU.
(Maxey Tape T65.7)
SSSHP 134 Tape: "Diphone Synthesis Demo, 4/66", IBM, 4" reel,
7.5 ips, MASTER COPY. (Maxey Tape T66.7)
SSSHP 135 Tape: "Diphone Demo MASTER III, Oct '67", IBM, 4" reel,
7.5 ips. (Maxey Tape T67.5)
SSSHP 136 Tape: "Speech Analysis/Synthesis Survey Tape", AFCRL,
1967, 7" reel, 7.5 ips. Backup copy of SSSHP 81.
See SSSHP USA AFCRL. (Maxey Tape T68.2)
SSSHP 137 Tape: "Sleeping Beauty", ETL Japan, 3" reel, 7.5 ips,
E. Matsui, et.al., Aug 1968, from N. Omeda.
(Maxey Tape T68.6)
SSSHP 138 Tape: "Synthesis Samples, Japanese", IBM, 3" reel
(3 Japanese phrases, 2 English phrases)
(Maxey Tape T68.10)
SSSHP 139 Tape: "Boone Demo, ASA of NC, Boone, NC", IBM, H.D.
Maxey, Oct 3, 1969. 4" reel, 7.5 ips (Maxey Tape T69.3)
SSSHP 140 Tape: "IBM 7770, 1969", 5" reel, 7.5 ips. Donated by
IBM Corp. (Maxey Tape T69.6)
SSSHP 141 Tape: "Application Based Sample Speech of VS4, May 15,
1972." See SSSHP USA VOTRAX. Additional speech samples.
(Maxey Tape T72.1)
SSSHP 142 Tape: "The Sounds of Computalker, 1976," Computalker
Consultants, Cassette. SSSHP has permission to use.
(Maxey Tape T76.1)
SSSHP 143 Tape: "Dialogue Homme/Machine (Reconnaissance automa-
tique et synthese par diphones), Recherches/Acoustique,
Vol. IV, 1977." CNET, Lannion, France. See SSSHP France
CNET. (Maxey Tape T77.1)
SSSHP 144 Tape: "TSI Speech/Reading System Announcement, 12/12/77."
Appears to be same as SSSHP 17. Cassette, leader broken
and needs to be repaired. (Maxey Tape T77.2)
SSSHP 145 Plastic Cassette: "A Report on the Kurzweil Reading
Machine for the Blind," Kurzweil Computer Products.
33 1/3 rpm plastic diskette accompanying The Kurzweil
Report, No. 3, Spring 1979. See SSSHP USA Kurzweil file.
(Maxey Tape T79.1)
SSSHP 146 Tape: "Klatt-Talk KT-1 Demo, May 1980", from Dennis
Klatt, MIT. Cassette. Same as SSSHP 92.2.
(Maxey Tape T80.2)
SSSHP 147 Tape: "Klatt Syn-by-Rule, Oct 1971, MIT", 7" reel,
7.5 ips. (Maxey Tape T80.3) A better copy is SSSHP 91.5.
SSSHP 148 Tape: "TSI Demo, J. Bernstein, 11/11/80", Cassette,
J. Bernstein, Telesensory Systems, Inc. Copy of SSSHP 31.
(Maxey Tape T82.1)
The above tapes SSSHP 119-148 were collected by H.D.
Maxey during IBM's diphone synthesis project, spanning
the years 1961 to 1985. The IBM-created tapes have been
released by IBM for use by the SSSHP by N.A. Dion (Jan 6,
1991) and A. Peled (Jan 13, 1993). See SSSHP USA IBM file.
------------- IBM Diphone Synthesis project records ------------
SSSHP 149 IBM - Maxey Tape Collection Card Index and Tape Tran-
scription Notes.
SSSHP 150 Tape: "IBM Diphone Speech Synthesis (1961-1970), H.D.
Maxey, May 2001. Cassette, 15:30 minutes.
SSSHP 151 Reprints: Diphone Synthesis papers, IBM Corp.
SSSHP 152 IBM TASS-II SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM CIRCUIT DIAGRAMS.
Original circuit diagrams and design notes for TASS-II.
Three-ring binder for 8.5" x 11" pages.
SSSHP 153 IBM TASS-II VOICING SPECTRUM. Calculations and measure-
ments of TASS-II frequency response and spectrum. Three-
ring binder for 8.5" x 11" pages.
SSSHP 154 IBM SPEECH SYNTHESIS DIPHONE SEGMENT DATA. Development
data for Diphone Libraries 1 to 5. Dated Oct 30, 1962 to
Jan 8, 1970. Three-ring binder for 8.5" x 11" pages.
SSSHP 155 IBM TASS-II ELECTRONIC CHARACTERIZATION. Photocopies of
selected circuits and charts for use as reproduction-
masters.
SSSHP 156 IBM TASS-II PHOTOGRAPHS
SSSHP 157 IBM TASS-II FUNCTION GENERATOR PATTERNS (originals).
Cannister, 3.5" x 7".
SSSHP 158 IBM TASS-II FUNCTION GENERATOR PATTERNS (Diazochrome)
Contact copies on Diazochrome film of original plastic
patterns. Cannister, 3.5" x 7".
SSSHP 159 IBM TASS-II FUNCTION GENERATOR PATTERN PHOTOCOPIES
SSSHP 160 Computer Diskette: IBM TASS-III DIPHONE DATA
SSSHP 161 IBM TASS-III DIPHONE LIBRARY 5B - printed
SSSHP 162 IBM TASS-III ORIGINAL CIRCUIT DIAGRAMS
SSSHP 163 IBM TASS-III ELECTRONIC CHARACTERIZATION. Photocopies
of selected circuits and charts for use as reproduction-
masters.
SSSHP 164 Programs: "DOS Speech Synthesis Assembly Listings,
Copy 2, 31 Aug 72", F. Easterly, IBM, 12"x15" Binder.
Items SSSHP 149-164 have been released by IBM for use by
the SSSHP by N.A. Dion (Jan 6, 1991) and A. Peled (Jan
13, 1993). See SSSHP USA IBM file.
----------- End IBM Diphone Synthesis project records ----------
SSSHP 165 Tape: "Meet the Expert, 30 Jan 58, Dr. H.M. Truby",
2nd generation copy of SSSHP 106, by H.D. Maxey, June
8, 2001. 5" reel, 3.75 ips.
SSSHP 166 Videotape: "Eye on Research: The Six Parameters of PAT",
donated by Prof. Bob Ladd, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland,
June 21, 2001. VHS/PAL format. 30:08 min
SSSHP 167 Videotape: Copy of SSSHP 166 in VHS/HTSC format. Donated
by H. D. Maxey, June 23, 2001.
SSSHP 168 Program: KLTEXC, improved Klatt 1980 speech synthesis
program by Diane Kewley-Port. On PC diskette.
SSSHP 169 Manual: "KLTEXC V5.0 Reference Manual, Diane Kewley-Port,
August, 1977," 24 pp. (In SSSHP USA Indiana Univ. file.)
SSSHP 170 Artifact: Kit of parts and directions for constructing a
3-series-formant vowel synthesizer. Bell System aids to
high school science programs, 1963. (See SSSHP USA BTL)
Items SSSHP 168-170 donated by Diane Kewley-Port, Indiana
Univ., July 7, 2001.
SSSHP 171 Tape: "Cornell University speech synthesis samples",
Susan R. Hertz, Cassette.
SSSHP 172 Tape: "Eloquent Technology, Inc. speech synthesis
samples", Susan R. Hertz, Cassette.
SSSHP 173 Reprints: Publications by Susan R. Hertz, et.al.,
Cornell University and Eloquent Technology, Inc.
(In SSSHP USA Eloquent Technology, Inc. file.)
Items SSSHP 171-173 donated by Susan R. Hertz,
SpeechWorks International, Inc., Ithaca, NY, Jan
23, 2002.
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