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From: riegels@amstel.eng.ohio-state.edu (Edward L. Riegelsberger)
Subject: Where does the word "formant" come from?
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:53:01 GMT


The following question came up in a speech related class I am taking:

        Where does the word "formant" come from?


The definition is clear, but its origin is not.  Did someone just make 
it up or are there reasons for which I am unaware?

Thanks!

--ed

-- 
Edward Riegelsberger
riegels@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu
Department of Electrical Engineering
The Ohio State University
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: WANTED: word to phoneme dictionary and digitized phonemes
Keywords: text to speech, phonenes, dictionaries
Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 10:24:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.003413.16272@hacker.UUCP> steve@hacker.uucp (Stephen M. Youndt) writes:
:The subject line pretty much says what I'm after. I'm trying to put
:together a *very* basic text to speech engine.  What this requires
:is a dictionary to convert from a latin alphabet to a phonetic
:alphabet, and digitized samples of spoken phonemes (I believe there
:are 39 in English).

I have several of these - the most easily accessible one is from the
nettalk program that comes with aspirin (the neural net package).  Another
quality set of data but not so easily accessible is the COED data on
black.ox.ac.uk  That site also has Daniel Jones' "pronouncing dictionary"
and Roger Mitton's data from his PhD project on spelling; also the MRCD
database.

I'm currently working on taking all the sets of data and converting them
to a single representation.  This also involves writing parsers to decode
text descriptions in docs like the 1911 websters.  (The IPA is represented
rather strangely...)

I'm going to use the ASCII IPA layout recently posted to alt.usage.english

Graham
PS I posted rather than replied just to let anyone who knows me know I
read this group, since I seldom post here, just in case anyone wants
to get in touch with me that I haven't spoken to for a couple of years...
From: mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu (Michael M Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: Edwards book on Phonetics
Date: 5 Jan 1993 10:05:19 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu
Keywords: Kay Elemetrics FFT Power Spectrum


In article <Jan.5.01.27.42.1993.3518@pilot.njin.net> hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) writes:
> ...
>procedures were done on the Computerized Speech Lab .. by
>Kay Elemetrics. LPC is useful for showing formants for the
>....
>I'd appreciate any answers. I've been trying to find out but
>I don't even know where this company is from.

Machine is probably a KAY DSP Sona-Graph model 5500

Kay Elemetrics Corp
12 Maple Avenue
Pine Brook, NJ 07058

800-289-5297

Note: I don't have a 5500, just a demo video....

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: tmjones@eos.ncsu.edu (@large(Are you Object-Oriented?))
Subject: Pen questions.
Originator: tmjones@c00498-118rd.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: tmjones@eos.ncsu.edu (@large(Are you Object-Oriented?))
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:38:33 GMT


Does anyone know a source for the pen sensetive lcds.  Also I am looking
for alight pen for a tandy 1000sx.  Does anyone know where I can find one.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: chip@chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal)
Subject: Can a Sun/Hitachi display run RGB-HV instead of RGB-S
Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin, TX
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 19:48:03 GMT

I have a Hitachi HM-4119-S-AA-0 20" monitor that came on a SPARCstation
1.  We upgraded the monitor on that system, and I'm trying to recycle
the Hitachi onto a peecee.

Unfortunately, I cannot get the display to sync up.  Whether I'm in
8514A graphics mode or dumb VGA text mode, I just get a screenful of
jittery colors.

My hypothesis is that the monitor is setup for a four-connector RGB-S
(composite sync signal), and the peecee adapter uses seperate vertical
and horizontal syncs (e.g. a five-connector RGB-HV cable).

There are five BNCs on the back of the display, and I'm assuming that
fifth BNC isn't just there for looks.  Hitachi dropped me like a ton
of bricks as soon as I said the model number and sent me over to Sun.
Sun told me that the monitor works just fine with their products, and
would be perfectly happy to see me throw it in the dumpster.

Can anybody help?  Does my theory on the sync signals sound correct?
If so, does anybody know if it's possible to reconfigure the monitor?
Alternately, are there any devices that will generate the appropriate
signals from a peecee video adapter output?
-- 
Chip Rosenthal  512-482-8260 | Ergonomic (adj) - Designed to ensure
Unicom Systems Development   | maximum discomfort in left-handed people.
<chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM>   |
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 1993 17:42:49 -0500 
From: "Douglas F. DeJulio" <dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: ST-01 and Quantum 105

I've got a SCSI card that has ST-01 printed on it, and a 105 3.5" HH
Quantum hard drive taken from inside of a NeXTstation.  I cannot get
them to work together.  The ST-01 recognizes the drive to the extent
that it pops up a message on bootup telling what to do to prepare the
SCSI drive for formatting, but when actually using the ROM formatting
commands errors occur.  When installed it also seems to keep Linux
from booting up properly.

Is there an incompatibility between the ST-01 and certain SCSI disks?
Do I have to set the jumpers on the card or drive in any particular
way?  Can somebody send me the jumper settings for the drive and the
card?

Thanks,
Doug DeJulio
ddj+@cmu.edu
From: il@bambam.u.washington.edu (Il Hwan Oh)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Pocket modem recommendations needed
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:23:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1iv5riINNe4j
Reply-To: iho@cac.washington.edu
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Washington, Tacoma
NNTP-Posting-Host: bambam.u.washington.edu

I'm looking for recommendations on pocket modems.  I'm looking for one to
use with a laptop.  This has to be 9600 or faster.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Il Hwan Oh                              | "You live and learn.
Computer Facilities Manager             |   At any rate, you live."
University of Washington, Tacoma        |            -- Douglas Adams
iho@cac.washington.edu                  | 
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison)
Subject: Re: Hard drive question,please read and reply
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Ancient Souls Inc.
Date:  5 Jan 1993 13:59 EST  

In article <1993Jan1.000036.1130@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, jeff@anthro.utah.edu (Jeff Thomas) writes...
>Your 8-bit WD controller should work in an AT. 

If it's an XT specific controller, isn't there some duplication of the AT's 
CMOS BIOS table function ? Didn't the XT controller have some of the functions 
in a built-in bios chip while the AT controller relied on the AT's own ROM 
Bios for these routines and disk mapping and such ? 

>Just because some card is
>only an 8-bitter doesn't mean that it won't work in an AT. The ATs were
>designed to take all 8- and 16-bit cards designed for the ISA bus.

Granted, but it *still* has to be an AT compatible controller, doesn't it ? 

-- Stephen

{Experimental .sig # 30245/T}

Humans -- 

	Beings stupid enough to create their own monsters, and then 
	curse their luck when they run into them. 
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 tape drive
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 05:04:12 GMT

In <1764@airgun.wg.waii.com> denham@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Scott Denham X7117) writes:
| I was told both by our in house technicians and someone who works on 8500's
| for a living that there is no such jumper. I also have the preliminary
| user's manual for the 8500 (pub 510201-000) and it makes no mention of 
| such a jumper. The information on mode select implies but does not 
| explicitly state that the mode can only be set with the SCSI MODE SELECT
| command. 

The defaults for almost everything the 8500 can do can be set
through the monitor port on the back of the drive.  Exabyte is
pretty free about giving out a binary that runs on PC's to set
these values.  Some of the parameters are reflected in the reported
inquiry info.  Contact Exabyte for more info.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: denham@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Scott Denham X7117)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 tape drive
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:25:33 GMT
Organization: Western Geo. - Div of Western Atlas Intn'l Inc., Houston, TX

In article <2B4B2A30.13984@news.service.uci.edu> rcaslis@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis) writes:

(text deleted) 
>I've heard that there is a jumper inside the unit that changes which
>mode it defaults to.  Can anyone help me find that jumper?

I was told both by our in house technicians and someone who works on 8500's
for a living that there is no such jumper. I also have the preliminary
user's manual for the 8500 (pub 510201-000) and it makes no mention of 
such a jumper. The information on mode select implies but does not 
explicitly state that the mode can only be set with the SCSI MODE SELECT
command.
From: jwk3@po.CWRU.Edu (John W. Kale)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Modems and Line Noise
Date: 11 Jan 1993 00:13:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jwk3@po.CWRU.Edu (John W. Kale)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


	My only UseNet access is via modem, and, unfortunately,
my system has terrible problems with telephone line noise. I have
discovered that the worst bursts of noise are associated with
the switching on and off of florescent lights and electric motors.
Is there anything that can be done to alleviate this problem? Am
I the only one to experience this difficulty, or have others noticed
similar interference? I am using a plain vanilla 2400bps modem,
with no hardware error correction or data compression. Thanks in
advance for any suggestions.
						-John

-- 
Looking down the barrel of a loaded gun  |       John Kale          ''''
Just to see where the bullets come from! |   jwk3@po.cwru.edu       -o-o
        -Screaming Blue Messiahs         |                   ---UUU---U--UUU--
       STARING AT LIFE BUT SOMEHOW BELIEVING IN NOTHING -- David Bowie
From: stlouis@unixg.ubc.ca (Phill St. Louis)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Card Scanners
Date: 5 Jan 1993 00:24:47 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

I would like to get some info about mark-sense card readers.  The machines
that read pencil marked cards.  

Is this the best Usenet news group to post this question in or could someone
recommend a better location?

I would like to know who is selling this equipment.  What kind of price for
the reader?  Cost for getting cards printed and other costs involved.

Thanks

Phill St. Louis

Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey)
Subject: Re: Colorado Tape Backup problems - computer too fast!
Organization: We don't need no stinkin' batches!
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:36:24 GMT

u5775949@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:

> HELP!
>I have recently upgraded my PC to a 386 motherboard and suddenly
>I get this crazy error message from the tape backup unit porgram:
>  Error 96 - HOST COMPUTER IS TOO FAST
>The tape backup unit is a model XR4(E) from ColoradoMemory Systems
>and is no longer serviced by them.  The local agents only answer
>is to buy their new 120MB unit - but it can't read my old tapes,
>and I don't want an old PC hanging about just to read them now
>and again.

Back in the days when a PC was a 8088, and a 5Mhz one at that,
games were written without regard for realtime.  When the AT's
came out, all of a sudden these games were moving 6 times faster
than they were designed.

The solution:  A program run to modify the DMA channel that
controls memory refresh.  This program set the refresh rate
so high, that it threw away 80% of CPU power on 'wasted'
memory refresh cycles.

I have no idea if these programs work on 386's, but it'd be
worth a try.  You might look to see if your board supports a
'turbo switch' and if it does, try slowing yur machine down
by turning off turbo when you want to run a backup.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: AMOUTR01@ysub.ysu.edu
Subject: LIGHT PEN SUPPLIERS
Organization: Youngstown State University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:18:40 GMT

I am currently writing an application and I would like to use a light pen
for user interaction.  Does anybody know of a location(s) that I can order
a light pen for MS-DOS machines.  Also, I would like to know a ballpark figure
for cost.
 
Thanks,
amoutr01@ysub.ysu.edu
From: rcaslis@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis)
Subject: Exabyte 8500 tape drive
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:51:28 GMT


We have an exabyte 8500 tape drive here (it can read/write both 2GB and 5GB
tapes), but when initializing new tapes it seems to default to the 2GB mode.

This drive replaces another 8500 that we had, but that one defaulted to 5GB
mode.  I've heard that there is a jumper inside the unit that changes which
mode it defaults to.  Can anyone help me find that jumper?



--
Russ Caslis
rcaslis@uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542 an tape Drives
Organization: Adaptec Inc., Texas
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:00:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.173938.7919@ico.isc.com> timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu) writes:
> Can someone explain what "bus on" and "bus off" times are all about?

Here you go:  The AHA-154x adapter family are bus masters.  This means
the adapter has it's own DMA chip and logic and acquires the ISA bus for
all data transactions.  As the ISA bus does not have any arbitration
logic for handling bus masters, it was required we design the board to
release the bus after a certain amount of time in order for memory
refresh to occur and to allow other I/O devices some slice of the ISA
bus for thier transactions.  The "bus on" time is the amount of time
the adapter will hold the bus for any given data transfer.  If the
transfer completes or the bus on time is reached, the adapter will
release the bus back to the CPU.  If there is still more data to move,
the adapter will wait until the "bus off" time expires and then request
the bus again to continue the data transaction.  This cycle continues
until the data transaction is complete.
---

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
			UUCP:	convex!egsner!adaptex!neese
			Inet:	neese%adaptex@cirr.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: ADSI scsi tape controller T-100 vs Linux
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:06:56 GMT

I have an older tape controller board to convert from scsi to QIC-36.
It doesn't work with my Linux scsi setup, although a SUN (ARCHIVE SCSI)
drive works fine. Looking at the manual for the T-100, the command set
and other specs look like those documented for scsi under Linux.
  Have there been major changes since 1987 or so when this board was made
to the SCSI specs that would make it incompatible with newer controllers?
Thanks.

-- 
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Prof. of Math. (topology)\ Internet:    wilker@math.purdue.edu
Dept. of Mathematics      \ messages:   (317) 494-1903, FAX 494-0548
Purdue University,         \ office:    (317) 494-1955 (voice/modem)
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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: model # differences....
Date: 10 Jan 93 02:04:08 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1intp4INNo0o@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher) writes:
> 	What's the difference between:
> 	Fuji 2624FS, 2624FA, and ?STM2624T? <this last one
> 					     sounds bogus...>

  I believe that the S units are SCSI and that the A units are IDE. I agree
that the last number sounds like somebody threw Fujitsu and Seagate model
numbers into a blender and this is what came out. Don't take my word for it,
though - contact a reputable vendor (see below).

>     and
> 	Adaptec 5242B and 5242 "Bus Master"

  There's no such model numbers. There is an Adaptec 1542B which is an ISA-
bus controller with bus mastering (and a 1540B which is the same board minus
the floppy controller) and a 17-series (like 1742) which is EISA-bus based.
Stay away from versions with a letter lower than B (or no letter) as these
have older versions of the microcode that don't provide necessary support
for things like BSD Unix.

  You should probably contact a reputable vendor who can clear these things
up for you. For drives, I buy from East Coast Electronics in MA (somewhere
in the 508 area code - you should be able to get the number from most maga-
zines or from the Clarinet "Low prices on popular disk drives" that shows up
in misc.forsale.computers or clari.streetprice.

  If you decide to do business with the person who gave you these numbers, I
would suggest you specify in writing what you want, listing the features,
etc. rather than relying on their model numbers. Something like "New Fujitsu
drive, 520Mb formatted capacity, 5-year manufacturer's warranty, 3.5" form
factor, SCSI interface with FAST SCSI-2 and synchronous support, with product
manual."

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	+1 201 915 9381
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Subject: Re: Performance Questions
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:46:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Organization: Advanced Technology Dept., Harris ESS, Melbourne, FL
Keywords: SCSI-2 wide Performance

In article <C0Hy41.9n5@storcon.uucp> paulh@storcon.uucp (Paul Hanmann) writes:
>
> I have a question which I hope someone out there can answer on realworld
> SCSI-2 WIDE performance.
> 
> Has anyone been able to test the maximum sustained transfer on a SCSI-2
> WIDE configuration. There seems to be some customer confusion on just how
> fast it can run.
> 

	For hard drives used one at a time (I don't know what is
done with RAIDs which use multiple drives), surely the maximum 
sustained data transfer rate cannot possibly exceed the rate at
which bytes are spun beneath the heads and presented for reading.
This is true no matter what cacheing strategies are used. The data
has to get into those caches and the maximum SUSTAINED rate at which
it can get there is determined by the rate at which it can be spun 
beneath the heads.

	Assume the hard drive rotates at 5400 RPM = 90 revs/second.
Further, assume 64 sectors/rev (i.e. 64 sectors/track). Each sector
contains 512 bytes. Under these conditions (which are about as good
as it gets), the rate at which data appears beneath the heads, which
is also the maximum sustained data transfer rate (DTR), can be quickly
calculated to be:

	MAX DTR = 90 revs/sec x 64 sectors/rev x 512 bytes/sector

                = 2,949,120 bytes/sec

or, a little less than 3 megabytes/second.


	I have often wondered why someone doesn't make a hard drive
(or do they?) which has 8 data heads which read an entire byte in
parallel, one bit of which comes from each of the heads. This would 
result in an 8-fold increase in DTR, which would allow a 
DTR = 24 megabytes/second!

	A 16-head 2-byte parallel-read drive would provide yet another
doubling of DTR to the 48 megabytes/sec region.

	Now that would saturate just about all but a Local-Bus, wouldn't
it?

	What prevents such a design? Technical factors I haven't
considered, economic factors, or both?


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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: davidr@plx.com (W. David Rohwer)
Subject: Manufacturer Phone Numbers Needed
Organization: PLEXUS Software, a division of REI
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:16:23 GMT

     I would like to know the phone numbers to Archive and Wangtek.  Please
list them in this forum or send them to me via email.

          Thanks.

-- 
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 /   // W. David Rohwer   // Amiga ++---------------------------------+
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From: Gess Shankar <gess@knex.via.mind.ORG>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: ASPI API specs
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 13:25:34 EST
Reply-To: <gess@knex.via.mind.ORG> (Gess Shankar)
Organization: |<><>| Knowledge Exchange, GA, USA |<><>|

Are the ASPI specs widely available? Are there publications one can get
or text/toolkits available to write (1) ASPI compatible drivers for
MsDos and OS/2 and (2) applications that can call the ASPI API directly?

Thanks for any input.

GeSS
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Knowledge Exchange|<><>|{rutgers,ogicse,gatech}!emory!uumind!knex!gess  |<><>|

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542 an tape Drives
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:39:38 GMT

Can someone explain what "bus on" and "bus off" times are all about?


-- 
Timothy Hu timhu@ico.isc.com	 | The intelligence (or lack of) expressed
Interactive Systems Corporation  | above does not necessarily reflect the
Resource Solutions International | that of anyone else.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
Subject: NEC CD ROM Drive
Organization: TRW Systems Division, Fairfax VA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:11:20 GMT

I have an early NEC CD ROM drive (CDR 35) that is ill-behaved on my SCSI
bus. Can anyone clue me in on what it's doing. I suspect it's terminated,
but I'm not even sure of that. I purchased it used.

Cheers,
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware