HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: parasite@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Leslie Mills)
Subject: Re: WANTED: ms-dos text-to-speech
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:08:13 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.060425.18579@uc.msc.edu> eab@msc.edu (Edward Bertsch) writes:
>
>I am curious as to if there is any software available for ibm compatible
>machines running DOS (or window for that matter) that will do text to
>speech.  Ideally, it would be 'sampled' speech as opposed to that nasty
>sounding synthesized speech.  Also ideally, it would not require any
>additional hardware (i.e. it could use the built in speaker) but could
>take advantage of (for example) a sound blaster if it were present.
>
>It could be a stand alone program, although something integrated into
>terminal software would be very good.  (the intended application is
>for a blind guy interested in using a bbs)
>
>Thanks a bunch,
>
>Ed
>
> <.sig deleted >

I am also interested in such a utility.  Could anyone please post any sites
they know where I could find it? (Assuming it is PD or shareware).
-- 
Leslie Mills

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Hunt it down, and kill it -- Thus sayeth a T-shirt
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: cid@wupost.wustl.edu (Central Inst for the Deaf)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Vocal Tract Data During Vowel Production
Date: 6 Oct 1992 11:38:18 -0500
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO
NNTP-Posting-Host: wugate.wustl.edu

Hi, not sure exactly where i should post this, but...
A scientist in my group is in need of vocal tract data, his "wish list"
is as follows.

(1) Midsaggital vocal tract images and/or measurements on
midsaggital dimensions of vocal tracts from the glottis to the lips during
vowel production. 
(2) Corresponding first three formant frequencies and,
hopefully, the fundamental frequency. 
(3) Such data measured from either
adult male or female subjects.  The data will be used to derive a midsaggital-
to-area conversion method and to estimate formant conversion factors between
male and female subjects. 

Any suggestions on finding this kind of data would be appreciated.
Thanks

dj meyer
djm@cidmv1.wustl.edu  

Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: greg@agog (Greg Cockroft)
Subject: Vowel Formant Analysis
Organization: Agog, Inc.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:08:13 GMT

I'm working on vowel formant analysis of 8Khz mulaw sound.

I have the complex roots of the Z transform, but I don't know how covert  
those into frequencies.

Here are the 10 roots for e

   Real       Imag
-0.811798   -0.495699  
-0.811798  0.495699   
-0.607208  0.034546   
-0.607208  -0.034546  
-0.236781  0.934321   
-0.236781  -0.934321  
0.690219   -0.459067   
0.690219   0.459067   
0.977227   -0.184636  
0.977227   0.184636   

Can anyone help?

	-greg.
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Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: terry@cs.UAlberta.CA (Terry Baxter; Linguistics)
Subject: Re: Speech Synthesis Software
Organization: University of Alberta
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 00:34:03 GMT

In article <BvI0Jn.KnC@cs.bham.ac.uk> jpi@cs.bham.ac.uk (Jon Iles) writes:
>Hi there ! 
>
>Just a quick question about software based speech synthesis products.
>I'd be very interested to hear from anyone regarding the availability
>of commercial / public domain / shareware software such as the Klatt
>software based speech synthesizer. I hasten to add I'm mainly
>interested in software to perform conversion from parameters to a
>speech signal, rather than complete text to speech systems.
>

There a 2 package that I am aware of 

   1) Bliss by Dr. John Mertus  @ Brown Universty  Mertus@browncog.bitnet
   2) CSRE  by Dr. Terry Nearey @ Univerity of Alberta Nearey@nova.ling.ualberta.ca

Both package use Klatt 80 speech synthesis.

I am aware of this because I rewrote the Klatt synthesis from Dr. Klatt 
original fortran code.

These package are complete speech development systems.

Terry Baxter
University of Alberta
    
terry@stonyplain.cs.ualberta.ca
From: charles@phx.mcd.mot.com (Charles Wolff)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Amiga Speech From C
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:03:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Tempe, Az.


	Apologies if anyone thinks this is too basic a question,
	but:  I have an Amiga 2000 and the Aztec "C" compiler.
	The compiler manual says absolutely nothing (that I
	can find) about how one would create speech from a "C"
	program.  I realize that English text has to be
	converted to phonemes, and I don't need to do this on the
	fly; I could pre-process the text using BASIC if I had to...

	Given that I have my text already converted to
	phonemes, I need to know what I would have to do from
	a "C" program to get it out to the speaker.  I'm looking
	at writing a program that would take a script for a play,
	with encoded blocking information, and read the play while
	it moved "actors" around the "stage" so that I could work out
	preliminary blocking with an extremely cooperative cast :-)

	Anybody able to provide a brief description (if it can
	be described briefly), pointers to books, etc.?  Does
	anybody know if there is a set of C libraries I could
	get that might even do the text-phoneme conversion?

	Email or post answers; I'll post a summary once I get
	it working.  Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: boylan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Terran Boylan)
Subject: Phoneme prog/data for SGI Indigo?
Organization: Engineering Animation, Inc.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:06:17 GMT

Does anybody have a Phoneme-based or just plain
ANY speech generation program for the Indigo?

I know that it would require a lot of memory, but maybe
less than one might think.

If anybody at SGI is listening, it might make for
a really neat library.  (cc -lspeech_s ??)

Terran J.

Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: tridge@nimbus.anu.edu.au (Andrew Tridgell)
Subject: Re: HMM with null transitions
Organization: Comp. Sci. Lab., Australian National Uni.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 23:17:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.192354.9578@seas.gwu.edu>, marshall@seas.gwu.edu (Christopher Marshall) writes:
|> I am working with HMMs in which a symbol is output when the model
|> changes state, as opposed to HMMs where symbols are output when
|> the model occupies a state.  For transition based HMMs, it is sometimes
|> useful to consider transitions which do not cause a symbol to be
|> output.  These are called null transitions.

My own work is with HMMs that output symbols in a state, but I have
also struggled a bit with how to sensibly define null outputs. Kai Fu Lee 
talks a bit about this in his thesis on Sphinx, if you can get hold of it.

Imagine we have a null transition from state A to B. A simple (and 
perhaps the only?) way to handle this is to consider this as equivalent to
a transition from A to all the states that B is connected to. So in all
the forward and backward calculations when you loop over all connections
from A you have to loop over all connection from B as well. A similar thing can be done in the backward calculations.

All this means is that you effectively replace your model with an
equivalent model with no null transitions. The problem is that all
this is stuffed up if you have loops of null transitions.

I think null transitions are just "convenience" connections that stop 
you having to connect lots of things. This is certainly the case 
in the way I use them, which is to connect all exit states of one phone
model to all entry states in another phone model. I actually store the
model in its "expanded" form.

Does anyone else have anything to add on this? Is there a neater way to 
do things?



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Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: luosu@waves.su.OZ.AU (Luo Su Huai)
Subject: Wanted:Head & shoulder image & speech data
Followup-To: comp.speech 
Reply-To: luosu@waves.su.OZ.AU (Luo Su Huai)
Organization: University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:54:38 GMT

 

Hello,all,
I am doing some work on synthesizing human face image through speech for my 
Ph.D thesis. Now I urgently need the sample data,both in image and in speech.
The data should be several minutes of head and shoulder image and corresponding
speech. I need a male speaking some sentences( with the words known). And
both the digital image and speech data can be acccessed frame by frame(prefer 
20ms/f).  Could anyone please offer me any information about how to get this?
Thanks very much in advance.

Luo Suhuai
School of Electrical Engineering
University of Sydney
NSW 2006,Sydney,Australia
luosu@ee.su.oz.au
From: mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu (Michael M Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: prosody
Date: 5 Oct 1992 08:07:47 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu
Keywords: prosody


In article <karenj.718267851@munagin> karenj@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Karen Jenkin) writes:
>I am curious about whether any prosody processing has been researched
>in speech recogntion (more specifically phonemes).
>The analysis of prosody could also be being used in the "voice-stress"
>experiments recently discussed in this group.
>
>Can anyone direct me to some refs. or ftp sites on the subject of prosody?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Karen
>(karenj@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au)
>

This goes back a ways, but Wayne Lea did a lot of work
on prosodics applied to speech understanding systems.
e.g. 
Lea, W.A., Medress, M.F. & Skinner, T.E. (1975)
A prosodically guided speech undertstanding strategy.
IEEE ASSP, 23, 1, 30-38. There are also a lot of tech
reports from Lea from his work at univac on the subject.

The voice-stress stuff, I've heard is sort of fringe-science,
mainly pushed by some ex-policeman who stood to gain
financially (as a paid court consultant) from it's acceptance...

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Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: asper@time.sbc.com (Alan E. Asper)
Subject: Re: Wanted:Head & shoulder image & speech data
Organization: Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, St.Louis, MO
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 15:56:43 GMT

In article <p9214305.718367164@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> p9214305@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Robert Pascale) writes:
>luosu@waves.su.OZ.AU (Luo Su Huai) writes:
>
>>Hello,all,
>>I am doing some work on synthesizing human face image through speech for my 
>>Ph.D thesis. Now I urgently need the sample data,both in image and in speech.
>>The data should be several minutes of head and shoulder image and corresponding
>>speech. I need a male speaking some sentences( with the words known). And
>>both the digital image and speech data can be acccessed frame by frame(prefer 
>>20ms/f).  Could anyone please offer me any information about how to get this?
>>Thanks very much in advance.
>
>
>There is a Macintosh program that does exactly this. Unfortunately, I can't 
>remember the name of it at the moment. It was designed to shop cut-away images
>of the human face to help people with speech disablilities. I will look for
>the details and post when I find it.
>

You may be thinking of an application called interFACE by BrightStar. It
allows you to synchronize a "talking head" with a digitized voice. It
was also loaded with bugs, so caveat emptor.
Good luck,
Alan
From: marty@cs.utexas.edu (Marty J. Sirkin)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: WANTED: ms-dos text-to-speech
Date: 2 Oct 92 08:33:09
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Austin, CS Dept.
NNTP-Posting-Host: predator.cs.utexas.edu
In-reply-to: eab@msc.edu's message of 2 Oct 92 06:04:25 GMT

I too have been looking for a package which I can use to enable
my toy applications to 'talk'.  I can live with synthesized speech,
since I need it to be small.

I have found several packages on the net which read text files and
put the speech out to a speaker, but I am looking for something with
a speech API callable from C.

I have found one program (commercial) that does this.  It is called
'Monologue' and is made by First Byte Software.  I found it at a 
Computer City.  The program *did* work, but there were quite a few
problems.  I could never get the speaker driver to work (although the
SB Pro worked just great).  The people at First Byte were really lousy
about returning calls, answering questions etc.  AND... you may use their
program in your program, but they want some serious (far, far too high) 
royalties if you actually *distribute* the programs you write.  Of course,
they don't mention this on the outside of the box...

The program sells for about USD 70. If all you need is to read files (or 
parts of the screen), this could work for you.  But if you want to program
with it, be prepared to pay ($600-$900) if your program makes $0-$10,000, and
7.5% of GROSS profits thereafter.  And if you're giving your program away,
it is still $600+

Marty
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: faldor@seq.uncwil.edu (Sherman Brown)
Subject: Re: WANTED: ms-dos text-to-speech
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:39:43 GMT

Has anyone come across a good text-to-speech (over the phone) to another
line end program.  In other words a program that will put the output 
through the phone line to the receiver's speaker on the phone...?
For a PC or PC-clone with only DOS or through 386BSD...

Thanx,
Faldor
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From: roihar@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: looking for info on how scanners work
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:46:27 GMT
Organization: AECL RESEARCH

Does anybody know where I can get an explanation of how flatbed scanners,
hand scanners and paper feed scanners work? I have FTP access but if you have
the info handy please email to roihar@crl.aecl.ca
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: u911661@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Mad Mal)
Subject: NEED help on using CD-Rom on PC ...
Summary: HELP ...
Keywords: CD ROM
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:04:15 GMT



I am seeking information on Disk Manager by On Track ... 

I am trying to get an Olivetti Worm drive with a Future Domain SCSI interface
to work under DOS 5.0 on a PC ....

It works perfectly under DOS 3.3 on the same machine .. but not 3.3 

And 3.3 will not allow large partition, greater than 32 meg not allowed from
memory ....

I have a need for this device in the very near future and the Olivetti people
down here are not doing a lot to help, so i am appealing for any information
at all that could help in this quest ...

NB i have tried the SETVER command, but obviously did not work ...

I await any and all replies ...

Mal.

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From: mcs@fps.com (Mike Sanfratello)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Wanted:  Used laser printer
Date: 30 Sep 92 23:59:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: CRAY Research

I'm looking for a used laser printer, something like an HP laserjet I or II

thanks,

mike
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: mstieb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Stieb)
Subject: Keyboard for the physically impared
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 21:52:53 GMT


  A few months ago I read a short article about a keyboard designed for
the physically impared, especially for diminished motor coordination
skills .  I am now trying to find that article agian.  I have a freind who
is in desperate need of such a keyboard.  If you have access to the
article I would appreciate the name and address of the company who is
going to manufacture it or any other names associated with the keyboard.
  If you can give me the E-mail address of Computer Shopper(I believe they
have a forum on Compuserve) that too would be appreciated.

Thanks Michael Stieb
************************ Please respond to Stieb@outlaw.uwyo.edu
From: eric@egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Switch settings for a Toshiba MK156FA
Date: 6 Oct 92 01:28:59 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: na
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.

I have aquired a pair of Toshiba MK156FA-I ESDI disk drives, from a pair
of SUN SCSI ShoeBoxes, and am in need of a description of the switches,
and their settings.

I lack the information needed to configure the drives to other than the
default ESDI device id.  Without it, I can't connect the second drive to
my Emulex MD21.. (yes, I am that crazy!)

Thanks for any information,
		Eric

-- 
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	Real Programmers don't comment their code.  If it was hard to
	write, it should be hard to understand and even harder to modify.
Xref: sparky comp.periphs:1305 comp.periphs.scsi:4745 comp.arch.storage:678
From: sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.arch.storage
Subject: 3-1/2" vs 5-1/4" MO disks questions. (Are 5-1/4 inchers dinosaurs?)
Keywords: Optical Disks
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:35:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: murdoch.1992Sep28.153551.3661
Followup-To: comp.arch.storage
Organization: University of Virginia - Physiology Dept.

I have heard a rumor that there will soon be a 3-1/2 Magneto-Optical (R/W)
optical disk with double capacity ( 256 MB/side ) released. 
Does anyone have any real info? 

Also, I get the *impression* that 3-1/2 inch may become the preferred format.
Are vendors actually doing more development on the smaller format ( at the 
expense of the larger ) ? 
 
Does anyone have have comparative sales figures on 3-1/2 inch vs. 5-1/4 inch 
drives. ( Actually, I'ld love to see sales figures for CD-ROMs, WORMs, and
various tape formats if anyone has them! ) 

Is there any danger of the larger format becoming extinct? 
What horse should I bet on, folks?


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Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster)
Subject: Re: looking for info on how scanners work
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:12:02 GMT

The basic principle is the same for hand scanners, flat bed, and moving
document scanners. You bounce a light off the image onto a CCD array.
The CCD array has the property that the rate the tiny silicon capacitor
discharges is inversely proportional to how much light hits it. Think of
it as a leaky RAM: write a 1, hit it with light, and keep reading it until
it returns a zero. Light bouncing off white makes the RAM zero faster.
For more details, see Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect (1904
I beleive.) All the rest is precision paper motion, so you'll know where on
the paper the pixel you just read came from. Color scanners tend to use three
lights, red, blue, and green. The CCD usually comes as a long linear array,
so you read a whole scan line in one pass.

If the above is slightly wrong, don't blame me, I just program the things.
What I see is a SCSI device. I download parameters to it using a vendor
specific protocol, tell it to execute the scan, then retrieve data from
it using a second vendor specific protocol.  The SCSI i/o is also vendor
specific, as are the graphics package calls to display the scanned image.
By vendor specific, I mean different for each brand of whatever.
Xref: sparky comp.periphs:1329 comp.sources.wanted:4517 alt.sources.wanted:1557 comp.misc:3835 comp.periphs.scsi:4794
From: news@mgse.UUCP (News Administator)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.wanted,comp.misc,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SCSI archive files
Date: 1 Oct 92 05:00:01 GMT
Followup-To: comp.periphs
Distribution: world
Organization: mgse


Last Changed:	Thu Sep 24 23:31:09 CDT 1992 (New BBS Phone number)

This is a periodic posting of information about some of the archives at
ftp.cs.tulane.edu and the available files from the SCSI-BBS, including
SCSI, ESDI, IPI, and Fiber Channel documents from the standards committees.

These files are available for FTP from ftp.cs.tulane.edu in the directory
pub/scsi. Files are stored in file areas as they are found in the BBS with
each area having a file named 'files.bbs' that tells what each file is. The
file pub/scsi/index.Z list each file area, it's descriptions and it's files.

Thanks to John Lohmeyer of NCR, a majority of the SCSI related files from the
SCSI BBS are now available for anonymous ftp. These files were sent to me by
Mr. Lohmeyer at his expense so that more people would have access to them.
The SCSI BBS (719-574-0424) contains a large amount of data relating to SCSI,
and ESDI as well as SCSI-2, IPI, and Fiber Channel, as well as the last
revision of the SCSI-1 standard before it went to publication by ANSI.

Most of the files in the SCSI archive are either archived with the ZIP utility
or compressed with the 'compress' program. Most of the text files are stored
as Wordstar word processing files. PKzip for PC/MS-DOS is included in the 
archive to allow users to break up the .ZIP files, and the PC/MS-DOS binaries
and .C source are also in the archive to convert the Wordstar documents to
ASCII text.

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From: perry@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: BSR X10 smarthouse
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:38:40 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

Keywords: X-10 X10 BSR

	I am looking to write an automated "smart house" program in C
(possibly under windows) that will be able to monitor whether lights are on,
windows open, doors open, and control the thermostat.  It appears that the
BSR/X10 technology is the best foundation to build on. 

	Is there anyone else out there that is familiar with the X10 protocol?
Or possibly someone who has done something similar?  I would like to discuss
ideas if so, and exchange code once I get some code down.  If anyone knows of
any code out there on the net for X10 on a PC, could you point me in that
direction?

Thanks!

Perry
perry@dyrcas.club.cc.cmu.edu