Voice Communication by Speech Synthesis,
Abstract
An automatic technique was developed to produce recognizable speech from a string of phonetic characters input from a teletype. The technique is based on modeling the acoustical consequences of the various configurations of the vocal tract. The method, as presented, is a computer simulation of a proposed hardware unit that can be easily interfaced with a computer, teletype terminal or a digital data transmission facility. The simulation has proven that speech generation from digital data is feasible and viable at a bit rate below 100 bits per second. The current system takes a teletype input and, through a definitive set of algorithms executed on a PDP-11 computer, converts it to a form compatible with the input to a Digital Speech Synthesizer Model 4516.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA031090
Entities
People
- Donald B. Warmuth
- Gregg L. Vaughn
- J. Ryland Mundie
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory