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    DECtalk was a speech synthesizer and text-to-speech technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1983, based largely on the work of Dennis...
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    Daisy Bell sung by the DECtalk speech synthesizer released in 1984...
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  • an "a cappella" style. Dominant systems in the 1980s and 1990s were the DECtalk system, based largely on the work of Dennis Klatt at MIT, and the Bell...
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  • proprietary neural network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Fonix DECtalk, a text-to-speech speech synthesis system (TTS). Fonix speech technology...
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    was also used on the controller card for Digital Equipment Corporation's DECtalk speech synthesizer system. On March 30, 2006, Intel announced that production...
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    introductory tutorials. Moonbase Alpha also spawned a meme surrounding the DECtalk text-to-speech functionality within its internal chat system, where users...
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    have up to eight transmitters. "Paul" was a computerized voice using the DECtalk text-to-speech system. "Paul's" voice was dissatisfactory and difficult...
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  • Composer-pianist Erik Lindgren was the major domo of this ensemble, which used a DECtalk voice synthesizer in their 1986 song "Robot."[citation needed] One of the...
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    with a variety of phonemes, similar to a baby's babbling. It uses the DECtalk voice synthesizer, and changes pitch, timing, articulation, etc. to express...
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  • "Thought Balloon" (Ming & Ping Rethink) (Ming and Ping, 2008) "Tender Lies" (DECTalk Remix) (Druaga1, 2010) Damas, Jason. "Freezepop". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation...
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    Systems, and subsequently spun off as Digital Network Products Group. DECtalk and DECvoice voice products were spun off, and eventually arrived at Fonix...
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  • briefly a NeoSpeech TTS user in 2004, but soon returned to using his iconic DECtalk voice synthesizer since he identified with it so strongly. Adobe Systems...
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    well as Karlos, the first computer-generated (using Digital Equipment's DECtalk) on-air personality in radio history. Legendary Boston stripper Princess...
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    problems. The output of the network was a stream of phonemes, which fed into DECtalk to produce audible speech, It achieved popular success, appearing on the...
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    individuals to type on a keyboard and have their words spoken through a DECtalk speech synthesizer. HandiWord, a "word prediction program", was responsive...
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  • ones are much crazier (and would incriminate him). Dee Klatt: Based on Dectalk. Dee Klatt is a wise and mild-mannered android. Long ago, they were unjustly...
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  • online via modem, using a 24-hour ski conditions line that was powered by DECTalk or at a laser-disk kiosk, developed by Telematic Systems, that was located...
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  • to work on user interfaces including DECface the visual equivalent of DECtalk the text-to-speech engine. Later, he went on to create the FaceWorks product...
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  • Professor in 1977. One of his long-time collaborators, Dennis Klatt (who wrote DECtalk while working in Stevens' lab), said that "As a leader, Ken is known for...
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