Speech synthesis
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Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-t
Computer and speech synthesizer housing used by Stephen Hawking in 1999
Fidelity Voice Chess Challenger (1979), the first talking chess computer
A speech synthesis kit produced by Bell System
Stephen Hawking was one of the most famous people to use a speech computer to communicate.
Daisy Bell
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"Daisy Bell " is a song written in 1892 by British songwriter Harry Dacre with the chorus "Daisy, Daisy / Give me your answer, do. / I'm half crazy / all for the love of you", ending with the words "a
Speech synthesis
…to synthesize speech, an event among the most prominent in the history of Bell Labs. Kelly's voice recorder synthesizer (vocoder) recreated the song "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Coincidentally, Arthur C. Clarke was visiting his friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs…
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