HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys,comp.graphics.animation
From: funge@dgp.toronto.edu (John David Funge)
Subject: Analytical Solution of ODE from Making Them Move (Requested)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:28:36 GMT


In Chapter 14 (Using Dynamics in Computer Animation: Control 
and Solution Issues by Mark Green) of Making Them Move edited 
by Badler, Barsky & Zelter the following sets of equations are
given.

Linear Equations:

m1 q1'' + c1 q1' + c2(q1' - q2') + k1 q1 + k2(q1 - q2) = F1
m2 q2'' + c2(q2' - q1') + k2(q2 - q1) = F2

Non-linear Equations:

m1 q1'' + c1 q1' + c2(q1' - q2') + k1 q1 - k2[(q2 - q1) + 0.5(q2 - q1)^3] = F1
m2 q2'' + c2(q2' - q1') + k2[(q2 - q1) + 0.5(q2 - q1)^3] = F2

m1, m2, c1, c2, k1, k2, F1, F2 are constants.

The text states that these equations have analytical solutions and
gives Advanced Dynamics by D'Souza, A.F. and V.K. Garg (1984) as 
a reference.

I have been unable to obtain a copy of Advanced Dynamics, so if
any one can provide me with the analytical solutions to the above
equations I would be grateful (funge@dgp.toronto.edu).
Newsgroups: comp.theory
From: butrfeld@cs.tcd.ie (Andrew Butterfield)
Subject: Re: Real Numbers vs. Rational Numbers?
Followup-To: comp.theory
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., TCD
Distribution: inet
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:08:59 GMT

In article <4287@dozo.and.nl>, jos@and.nl (Jos Horsmeier) wrote:
> 
> In article <1993Jan3.151347.29159@tom.rz.uni-passau.de> boerncke@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Frank-Roland Boernke) writes:
> 
> |For 2/5 you can find a finite numeric representation ( 0.4 )
> |for PI or PI*PI you cannot!
> 
> But what if we use a base PI representation? PI*PI obviously equals 100,
> which is definitely a finite numeric representation. There is none for 2/5,
> when using base PI.
> 
> kind regards and happy new year!
> 
> Jos aka jos@and.nl


You cannot represent 1, 2, 3, exactly either --- "base PI" doesn't seem
much use.

Say we have 12 and 23 as numbers in your base PI, how do we add them ?
What gets carried and how is it represented ?

The key point is that no matter what base you choose, it will not be
capable of 
giving a finite representation to all real numbers. Real numbers are
inherently
infinite objects.

Andrew Butterfield,                        butrfeld@cs.tcd.ie
Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, IRELAND
Newsgroups: comp.theory,sci.crypt,sci.math,rec.puzzles
From: wangly@cad17.ncku.edu.tw ()
Subject: deadline of ICCD'93
Organization: National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:33:15 GMT

Hi,
    Any one knows when is the deadline of ICCD`93?

Thanks.


Wang L. Y.
NCKU
Taiwan ROC
From: hbriceno@figment.mit.edu (Hector Briceno)
Subject: A speech driver for the NeXT
Keywords: NeXT speech
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:00:35 GMT

I have just found a product for the NeXT that will generate speech from  
text.
Its call TextToSpeech Kit made by Trillium Sound Research Inc. The  
Developer Kit sells for $350 CDN (approx. $290 US), and the User Kit
sells for $175 CDN (approx. $145 US).  The User Kit can be upgraded to
the Developer Kit for $175 CDN.  Shipping is extra, and is via overnight
courier.  If you want more information contact: manzara@cpsc.UCalgary.CA


	Hector Briceno
From: sjr@eng.cam.ac.uk (Steve Renals)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: TR Available
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:06:40 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department


The following technical report is available via FTP, from the
International Computer Science Institute (ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu) and
also the Cambridge Univeristy Engineering Department FTP archive
(svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk).


CONNECTIONIST PROBABILITY ESTIMTAION IN HMM SPEECH RECOGNITION
Steve Renals and Nelson Morgan
International Computer Science Institute
Technical Report TR-92-081

This report is concerned with integrating connectionist networks into
a hidden Markov model (HMM) speech recognition system, This is
achieved through a statistical understanding of connectionist networks
as probability estimators, first elucidated by Herve Bourlard.  We
review the basis of HMM speech recognition, and point out the possible
benefits of incorporating connectionist networks.  We discuss some
issues necessary to the construction of a connectionist HMM
recognition system, and describe the performance of such a system,
including evaluations on the DARPA database, in collaboration with
Mike Cohen and Horacio Franco of SRI International.  In conclusion, we
show that a connectionist component improves a state of the art HMM
system.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

UK;  The report is available from svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk (129.169.8.1),
     in directory 'reports', file 'renals_icsi92-081.ps.Z'

USA: Available from ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu (128.32.201.7), 
     in directory 'pub/techreports', file 'tr-92-081.ps.Z'

Sample FTP session:

unix% ftp ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu

ftp> binary
ftp> cd pub/techreports
ftp> get tr-92-081.ps.Z
ftp> quit

unix% zcat tr-92-081.ps.Z | lpr

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Steve Renals
Cambridge University Engineering Department
sjr@eng.cam.ac.uk
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Newsgroups: comp.speech,comp.sources.wanted
From: steve@hacker.uucp (Stephen M. Youndt)
Subject: WANTED: word to phoneme dictionary and digitized phonemes
Followup-To: poster
Summary: need the parts to a rudamentary text to speech program
Keywords: text to speech, phonenes, dictionaries
Organization: My computer in Burke, VA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 00:34:13 GMT

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've sort of inferred that I'd like English -> Phonetic, and that's
true, but I'll gladly take any language I can get. And, of course,
the longer the dictionary, the better.

All of the above failing, I'd be interested to see a list of the
5000 or so most used words in the English (or any other) language.

Please send responses directly to me, and I'll post a summary. I
also intend to make the sources available when the text to speech
engine is complete.

Thanks in advance,

Steve 
-- 
Stephen M. Youndt  UUCP: uunet!hacker!steve  I-NET: steve%hacker@uunet.uu.net
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Newsgroups: comp.speech,comp.dsp,comp.misc,comp.ai
From: millard@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Millard Edgerton)
Subject: Re: Speech recognition devices
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:11:08 GMT

herman@nosc.mil (John W. Herman) writes:

>--
>I am looking for products that support the voice typewriter concept with
>a trainable recognition device that attaches to a computer word
>processor (PC Mac Sun) with a vocabulary of a few thousand words.  Can
>someone point me in the right direction.  Thank you.


>-- 
>John Herman    ARPA:  herman@marlin.nosc.mil  Phome: (619)553-1466
>Naval Ocean System Center Code 712
>271 Catalina Blvd
>San Diego, Ca. 92512-5000 

Contact:

	Dragon Systems Inc.
	90 Bridge Street
	Newton MA 02158

	Tel: 1-617-965-5200
	Fax: 1-617-527-0372

Millard
A member of AVIOS, The American Voice Input/Output Society.

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From: ken@comanche.sbi.com (Ken Jones - Consultant)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: Klatt synthesis? Part 1/3
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:33:49 GMT
Reply-To: ken@comanche.sbi.com (Ken Jones - Consultant)

>I have a version of this which I actually made work.  The
>problem is that it has a funky menu interface instead
>of a simple command-line interface.  It has two programs,
>1) takes a bunch of phonemes and generates a table of 
>numbers, and 2) which reads the table and generates
>a binary sound sample.

Send me your code and I will make a "cool" Motif X-Windows version.

-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   Ken Jones                                                           |
|   Expert Database Systems, Inc.                                       |
|   ken@mr_magoo.sbi.com              "Where the future begins tomorrow |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: taihou@iss.nus.sg (Tng Tai Hou)
Subject: Re: The Klatt Synthesizer for Sparcs 
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:07:25 GMT

I think we have been had. Going through the klatt.c file, if you
look for the 'p' key press handling code, you'll find a call
to hplay. Then look into the hplay.c file. All that's in there
is a printf statement. The comments at the top of the file said 
it is a dummy file.

Saving the file in klatt didn't work either. It produces four
files, out of which *.au file seems to be the only plausible
one. The normal play (which plays sound) claims it isn't a valid
sun audio file.

Tai Hou
Singapore
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: lilly@nhmfl.fsu.edu (Leonhard Lilly)
Subject: Re: The Klatt Synthesizer for Sparcs 
Organization: Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee
	32306, USA
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:19:15

In article <gordon.726250884@spot.Colorado.EDU> gordon@spot.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R) writes:

>   I've also compiled klatt.  I presume the hello.par file should produce some
>   sound.  However, reading it in, calculating the waveform, and playing it back
>   does not seem to produce sound via the sparc d/a.  Also, attempting to save 
>   the waveform to a file produces a .au file that seems to have data in it and
>   a .dat and a .xgr file that are empty.
>
>   Does anyone know whats happening here?
>
>   Thanks
>
>
>   -- 
>   Allen Gordon   	         *If the folly of but one of us was changed to*
>   Research Associate         	 *intelligence, and divided amongst a thousand*
>   gordon@tramp.colorado.edu    *toads, each would be more intelligent than  *
>			         *Aristotle				      *

I tried to compile it as well. moving the *.c.00 files to *.c helps a
lot. Then you have to make sure that cc finds the audio library
libaudio.a and some of the SUN audio include files are in the right
place (either change the code or move the includes), check for al the
multimedia/*.h includes.

klatt itself doesn't produce any output for me either, but I didn't
check that too carefully. But uklatt hello.par mumbles "hello, my name
is". With  gen you can compose phonemes into longer structures (with a
lot of pauses), however not all phonemes are listed. Check lex.yy.c for
a complete listing. 
I didn't find any part doing the text to phoneme translation, and I
wasn't really impressed with the quality, but maybe somebody can
enlighten us as to how to tune the parameters etc.

Hope that helps

				Leo



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Department of Physics                 Phone:  (904) 644 - 5075
FSU - NHMFL          
Tallahassee, FL 32306
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Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: gordon@spot.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R)
Subject: Re: The Klatt Synthesizer for Sparcs 
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date:  5 Jan 93 16:21:24 GMT

I've also compiled klatt.  I presume the hello.par file should produce some
sound.  However, reading it in, calculating the waveform, and playing it back
does not seem to produce sound via the sparc d/a.  Also, attempting to save 
the waveform to a file produces a .au file that seems to have data in it and
a .dat and a .xgr file that are empty.

Does anyone know whats happening here?

Thanks


-- 
Allen Gordon 		         *If the folly of but one of us was changed to*
Research Associate         	 *intelligence, and divided amongst a thousand*
gordon@tramp.colorado.edu   	 *toads, each would be more intelligent than  *
				 *Aristotle				      *
From: graff@chestnut.ling.upenn.edu (David Graff)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: Edwards book on Phonetics
Keywords: Kay Elemetrics FFT Power Spectrum
Date: 9 Jan 93 04:27:11 GMT

In article <1ibmgvINNhlj@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu (Michael M Cohen) writes:
|> 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.
|> >....
|> >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
|> 

The machine is actually the Computerized Speech Lab (CSL), which is a
combination of software and peripheral hardware for 80x86 machines
running MS-DOS.  It's really quite an effective tool for sampling,
playback, analysis and synthesis of speech.  I haven't used it much
myself, but I've seen it used, and it struck me as an impressive setup
for speech research, especially given the fairly low budget required
to get everything you need.  The DSP 5500 is something quite
different, I think, and perhaps not as versatile.

-- 
David Graff			Linguistic Data Consortium
graff@chestnut.ling.upenn.edu	441 Williams Hall
voice: (215) 898-0887		University of Pennsylvania
fax:   (215) 573-2175		Philadelphia, PA 19104
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: hbriceno@figment.mit.edu (Hector Briceno)
Subject: Is there a program that talks english text for Sun or Next?
Keywords: speech NeXT Sun talk
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:44:49 GMT

Hello,

	I would like to know if there is a program out there that
you feed text to standard input and it talks out, for a Sun or a NeXT?

	Thanks You
	
		Hector Briceno

PS reply to this same newsgroup.
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: kiehl@utrurt.uni-trier.de (Johannes Kiehl)
Subject: Re: Klatt SYnthesizer (How to work)
Reply-To: kiehl@ldv01.uni-trier.de
Organization: University of Trier
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:16:26 GMT

I'd love to compile the program on a DOS PC. There seem to be a couple
of things in my way, at first sight:

phonemes.h: That one is included into gen.c, though wasn't in the posted
	    file
sklatt: Is this a program that comes with the Sun OS? You said somewhere in
	    the orig posting that it's a skim version of klatt (of which
	    the source was included).

If I could get the synthesizer to produce .au files on my PC I'd be almost
completely content!

hannes.

--

   ,eSEHBg.         Johannes Kiehl, Student at the
  &HP'ZNF'          University of Trier (Computational Linguistics)
  NZv1K'    ()
  ?ZHXMZ%_          kiehl@ldv01.uni-trier.de
   `*YZHB*'
From: ofsmyth@unix1.tcd.ie (Ossian Smyth)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Macintosh speech synthesis ?
Keywords: Macintosh
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:44:13 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

Hello, world.

Do any of you know of a mac product which will 'speak' an ASCII file ?
I have MacIntalk but it appears not to work with system 7...
Is Dectalk available for macs ? 

I'll post what I get.

--Ossian Smyth
  34-1-5, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
  ofsmyth@vax1.tcd.ie
From: gordon@spot.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R)
Subject: Re: Klatt SYnthesizer (How to work)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:38:15 GMT

yu030@cs.cuhk.hk (Yu Wai Leung) writes:

>gordon@spot.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R) writes:


>According to my interpretation, "klatt" will produce files with the 
>following extensions: .xgr, .dat and .au. Only files of extension
>.au are playable on sparc stations. And the .xgr and .dat files
>are binary files which contain the entire waveform produced by the
>synthesizer. If you found that the .xgr's and .dat's non-readable,
>you can try to extract the waveform by yourself by looking into
>the content of the short integer array "iwave" in the source file
>"klatt.c". In "klatt.c", the content of "iwave" are compressed
>(using mu-law) and the results will be placed in a character array
>called "plabuf". 

>Cheers!

>Yu Wai-Leung
>Dept of Computer Science, 
>Chinese University of Hong Kong
>e-mail: yu030@cs.cuhk.hk

Thanks,  

The .au file was not written.  Examination of the code in klatt.c revealed that
the code segment that created the header and wrote the data to the .au file 
was in a #if FALSE ....  #endif   conditional.   Removal of this conditional,
then allowed for the creation of the file, which is an audio data file 
(according to file).  However,  playing the test file hello.par produces sound
which is unintelligble.  It is identical to playing back the audio file 
hello.au.  Furthermore, something that wasn't clear in my original note was thatwhile hello.xgr file could be displayed with xplot, the plot really didn't 
look like speech.  Similarly for hello.dat.

What am I missing here?  I'll check the short array iwave to see if I can find
anything else.  However, as I read klatt.c, iwave is filtered through
audio_s2u to produce plabuf.  The ascii files hello.xgr and hello.dat are
produced from audio_u2s(plabuf).  Shouldn't this be the same as iwave, then?
The file hello.au is essentially plabuf with an audio header.
-- 
Allen Gordon 		         *If the folly of but one of us was changed to*
Research Associate         	 *intelligence, and divided amongst a thousand*
gordon@tramp.colorado.edu   	 *toads, each would be more intelligent than  *
				 *Aristotle				      *
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu (Michael M Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: The Klatt Synthesizer for Sparcs
Date: 7 Jan 1993 13:02:54 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <1993Jan7.110725.5112@nuscc.nus.sg> taihou@iss.nus.sg (Tng Tai Hou) writes:
>to hplay. Then look into the hplay.c file. All that's in there
>is a printf statement. The comments at the top of the file said 
>it is a dummy file.

Try looking in hplay.c.old !

-- 

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=   Program in Experimental Psychology     mmcohen@fuzzy.ucsc.edu    =
=   433 Clark Kerr Hall                    408-459-2655 LAB          = 
=   University of California - Santa Cruz  408-459-2700 MSGS         = 
=   Santa Cruz, CA 95064                   408-459-3519 FAX          = 
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Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: ronzu@comm.mot.com (Ron Zuckerman)
Subject: Re: Klatt SYnthesizer (How to work)
Reply-To: ronzu@comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:06:58 GMT

In article 726507433@spot.Colorado.EDU, gordon@spot.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R) writes:

[Plotting stuff deleted]

>
>Finally, when klatt is exited, I must run stty sane to get the keyboard/monitor
>to respond normally.
>

I had the same problem. What I did was to modify "klatt.c" as follows:

main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];  
{
  ...
  do {
    printf("\n\n\n\nYour options are:");
    ...
  } while (choice != 'X');
  system ("stty sane");	<--- line added
}

---
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| Ron Zuckerman, KA4RPD  E-mail: ronzu@isu.comm.mot.com          |
| Phone: (708)538-3142   FAX: (708)538-2818                      |
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| "A madman got us into this, and it's beginning to look as if   |
|  only a madman can get us out." -- Chekov                      |
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Newsgroups: comp.speech,alt.education.disabled
Subject: DEC-Talk
From: little_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 7 Jan 1993 01:21:44 GMT
Reply-To: little_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

Hi,
I'm an university student using a computer voice syntheziser (currently Double Talk) the communicate with others.

DEC have had a relly 'nice' voice syntheziser out for years, but it was incased in it's own box about the size of a reem os A4 paper.

In 1994 DEC talked about releasing the old 'DEC-Talk' as an interface card that culd simply be slotted into your pc.

Now, I was wondering if anyone knows whether this has been released yet?

Thanks for any help!

Jon Little                      little_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

P.S. A e-mail address for DEC would also be very handy
           Sorry 'bout the typing errors!
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: stevew@teleride.on.ca (Stephen M. Webb)
Subject: Re: Dialogic .VOX file format info wanted
Organization: Teleride Sage Ltd.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:13:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.185746.11930@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> j_west@zebpik.enet.dec.com writes:
>
>In article <C06Kvo.E3E@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, pms26964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu 
>(Phil Scopes) writes:
>|>
>|>I would like to know the format of the voice files (.VOX) used by the 
>|>Dialogic product line so that I can write programs that analyze the voice
>|>data.
>
>
>  It depends on the method that was used to record the file(s).  PCM or
>ADPCM, 4 or 8 bits samples, and 6053 or 8K samples/second.

The older D41 cards use only 4-bit ADPCM 6 kHz samples.  Dialogic supplies
distribution notes on this format (complete with encoding algorithms).
Contact Dialogic and ask for Application Note AN009.

-- 
------- Stephen M. Webb -------

Ack!  I've accidentally broken my leg!  -- Ed the Happy Clown

Newsgroups: comp.speech,comp.dsp,comp.misc,comp.ai
From: herman@nosc.mil (John W. Herman)
Subject: Speech recognition devices
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:41:21 GMT

--
I am looking for products that support the voice typewriter concept with
a trainable recognition device that attaches to a computer word
processor (PC Mac Sun) with a vocabulary of a few thousand words.  Can
someone point me in the right direction.  Thank you.


-- 
John Herman    ARPA:  herman@marlin.nosc.mil  Phome: (619)553-1466
Naval Ocean System Center Code 712
271 Catalina Blvd
San Diego, Ca. 92512-5000 
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: jimw@empros.cxn.dec.com (Jim West)
Subject: DTMF to Alpha conversion
Reply-To: j_west@zebpik.enet.dec.com
Organization: Random Mixed
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:36:03 GMT


  I am looking for some code examples that show how best to do alphabetic
recognition via DTMF signals.

  For instance, the user presses 78743 for the word PURGE (or any other
matches).

  Much thanx,

-/ Jim /-
Newsgroups: comp.speech