HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gordon@spot.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R)
Subject: Re: Klatt SYnthesizer (How to work)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date:  8 Jan 93 15:37:13 GMT

I got this to work, sort of.  With the file hello.par, klatt produces a .dat
file, which I presume is the waveform and a .xgr file, which can be used with

	graph ... | xplot

to produce a plot of the waveform.  When I attempt to play the signal, it does
produce sound on the sparc, but it is not recognizable.  The waveform does not
really look like speech, also.  Is this some sort of logarithmic compression?

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

Any suggestions?

Allen

-- 
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: kambiz@thecube.tcs.com (Kambiz Homayounfar)
Subject: Jobs Offered
Keywords: Speech Coding, DSP
Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:28:41 GMT

Positions Available 

Teknekron Communications Systems Inc. (Berkeley, CA) is a technology  
development and licensing company with a staff of 180 most of whom are  
engineers and scientists.  We work on a variety of  R&D projects in areas  
of wireless communications (cellular, cordles, PCS) and telecommunications  
software (network management systems, operational contol).  
 
Senior Scientist, Speech Coding
Requires MS or Ph.D in electrical engineering with minimum of 10 years  
experience in design and implementation of speech compression algorithms  
for telecommunications and consumer electronics products. 
Responsibilities include:
* Formulation of novel speech compression algorithms at bit rates below 16  
kbps
* High-Level (using C-language) and CAD-based (COSSAP, WAVES) simulation  
of speech coding algorithms
* Objective and subjective evaluation of low bit-rate speech coders
* Real-time implementation of speech coding algorithms on general-purpose  
DSP chips (TI TMS family, AT&T DSP1600) 
* Design of processor architectures for custom implementation of speech  
compression algorithms
* Analysis of standard (CCITT, TIA, ETSI) speech coding algorithms for  
low-power implementation on custom DSP architectures

DSP Application Engineer
Requires BS/MS in Electrical Engineering with minimum of 5 years of  
product development experience in wireless or consumer electronics  
industries. Sales engineering experience and knowledge of Japanese  
language highly desirable. 

Responsibilities include:
* Assembly-level DSP software development
* Design and construction of DSP-based hardware prototypes
* Consult with customers' engineers to assure compliance with customers's  
needs and specifications

Contact: 
Kambiz Homayounfar
Senior Manager, Wireless Communications
Teknekron Communications Systems Inc.
2121 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Fax # (510) 848 8851
Internet: kambiz@tcsi.com
From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Edwards book on Phonetics
Keywords: Kay Elemetrics FFT Power Spectrum
Date: 5 Jan 93 06:27:42 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.



Hello,

There's a passage in Edwards book Applied Phonetics 
regarding the Power Spectrum. It goes;

"For the consonants, the spectra were derived by... FFT.
The vowels were analyzed using Linear Predictive Coding. Both
procedures were done on the Computerized Speech Lab .. by
Kay Elemetrics. LPC is useful for showing formants for the
vowels, and FFT allows us to see larger concentrations of
acoustic energy.""


There's a lot of ambiguity here and I'm not sure anymore that
the figures for the vowels given in the book are really the
Power Spectrum. Neither am I sure that the ordinate is linear,
it might be logarithmic. The figures given in the book might
simply be a moving average of some sorts of the signal FFT.

Has anyone used this machine anywhere ? Are the figures
really the Power Spectrum ? And is the scale linear or
logarithmic ? Are the plots really the FFT of the autocorrelation
of the signal ?

I'd appreciate any answers. I've been trying to find out but
I don't even know where this company is from.
-- 

	mark	

   hubey@amiga.montclair.edu         hubey@apollo.montclair.edu
   hubey@pilot.njin.net               ...!rutgers!pilot!hubey
From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Natural Language Processing
Date: 13 Jan 1993 01:21:06 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
NNTP-Posting-Host: saturn.sdsu.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]


What is the newsgroup for discussing Natural Language Processing?


Larry
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: yu030@cs.cuhk.hk (Yu Wai Leung)
Subject: Re: Klatt SYnthesizer (How to work)
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:32:17 GMT

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

>I got this to work, sort of.  With the file hello.par, klatt produces a .dat
>file, which I presume is the waveform and a .xgr file, which can be used with

>	graph ... | xplot

>to produce a plot of the waveform.  When I attempt to play the signal, it does
>produce sound on the sparc, but it is not recognizable.  The waveform does not
>really look like speech, also.  Is this some sort of logarithmic compression?

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

>Any suggestions?

>Allen

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
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu (Ben Bryant)
Subject: timit2ulaw code 
Reply-To: bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:04:23 GMT

Does anyone have the C code for the above executable? I have been trying to write
my own with little luck. Someone sent me the executable, but not the source, and
I am trying to get some information on the way the 16 bit linear to 8 bit ulaw
conversion takes place. BTW, the executable does a very good job in changing
the samples..... -To all that it may concern.

-Ben Bryant
<bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu> 



Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: jimw@empros.cxn.dec.com (Jim West)
Subject: Re: Dialogic .VOX file format info wanted
Reply-To: j_west@zebpik.enet.dec.com
Organization: Random Mixed
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:55:24 GMT



  ...more specifically the files are in VBASE/40 format. (at least the
indexed type are)

  There is a 24 byte header and a 12 byte record for each prompt (may be
only one).  All data is stored as long integers (4 bytes each).

  Header Record:
	Field	Description
	  1	Maximum number of directory records
	  2	Sampling rate
	  3	Number of prompts used in the file
	  4	Reserved
	  5	Bytes used in file
	  6	Reserved

  Prompt Record:
	Field	Description
	  1	Offset in file to start of speech data
	  2	Length of prompt in bytes
	  3	Offset in file to start on annotation text

  Hope this helps

-/ Jim /-
From: jpi@uk.ac.bham.cs (Jon Iles)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: The Klatt Synthesizer for Sparcs
Keywords: Klatt Synthesizer
Date: 7 Jan 93 13:04:21 GMT
Reply-To: jpi@uk.ac.bham.cs
Organization: University of Birmingham

No you've not been had ! The Klatt software posted to the net a couple
of days ago does work... with modification. I have a working version which
I will post to the net within the next couple of days... with instructions.

Cheers !

Jon
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Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: mklai@ie.cuhk.hk (Edmund M K Lai)
Subject: Speech Databases
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:14:13 GMT

I heard that a number of speech databases are now available on CDROMs.
Could someone please tell me how I can purchase them (e.g. TIMIT)?

Edmund Lai
Department of Information Engineering		phone: +852-609-7988
The Chinese University of Hong Kong		fax:   +852-603-5032
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong				email: mklai@ie.cuhk.hk
From: lirou@irit.irit.fr (Patrick LIROU)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: french speech with SoundBlaster card
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:20:54 GMT
Organization: IRIT-UPS, Toulouse, France


I'm using SmooothTalker, a text to speech driver manufactured by First Byte,
with a SoundBlaster card.

I'm looking for a version producing french speech or an equivalent product.

Who can help?

Thanks.

--
Patrick LIROU               UUCP: lirou@irit (...!mcsun!inria!irit!lirou)
INTERNET: lirou@irit.fr
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: ieecjk@ccunix.ccu.edu.tw (Dr. C.J. Kuo)
Subject: EE faculty position in Taiwan
Organization: National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:43:39 GMT


Department of Electrical Engineering
National Chung Cheng University
Chiayi, Taiwan, R.O.C.


    The Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Cheng
University, Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC invites applications for faculty
positions at the Associate Professor and Professor levels.  Appointment
will be in the following areas: 

    1. Electrical machinery
    2. IC design (prefer experiences with communication ICs)
    3. Signal processing
    4. Computer architecture
    5. Intergrated optics
    6. Medical imaging
    7. Artificial intelligence
    8. Communication networks (prefer experiences with ATM)


    Only four vacancies are open and will be filled with four strongest
candidates submitting applications.  The candidate must have a Ph.D.
degree in a relevant discipline from a accredited university and must
have demonstrated academic potentials.  Faculty at NCCU are expected to
teach both undergraduate and graduate courses and conduct research.
NCCU is located in the southern part of Taiwan and have a spacious
(total area: 133 hectares) and scenic campus.  We are young and growing.
Currently we offer B.S. and M.S. degrees.  Starting with Fall Semester
1993, we will also offer Ph.D. programs. 


    Both accomplished scholar and new Ph.D. are welcome to apply.
Please send your resume, a 500 word autobiography including your goals
at NCCU, indications of two subjects, one each for undergraduate and
graduate curricula, that you wish to teach, and three references to 

    Dr. Thomas T. Fang, Head
    Department of Electrical Engineering
    National Chung Cheng University
    Chiayi, Taiwan 62107
    R.O.C.

Applications received by Mar. 1, 1993 will be screened by Mar. 5 for
the first list of finalists.  Applications received after Mar. 1 will
be considered if not enough strong candidates have filed applications by
then.
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu (Ben Bryant)
Subject: PD Sparc TTS systems 
Reply-To: bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:47:44 GMT

Hello again all,
I have recently been trying to find out about various PD software availability
for the Sparc architecture (IPCs, IPXs, Sparc 1+s, or Sparc 2s). I have found
two programs that I have compiled and listened to, and I was really not to
impressed with the produced voice quality. -Not to in any way demean the authors,
because I am sure that they both required much effort. The two were the Brown U.
system "scat" and the Klatt system "gen". Does anyone know of any other PD synths
that are more natural sounding (particularly ones that would in some way "smooth"
phoneme transitions - giving better between phoneme coarticulation effects)? Or
does anyone know of where I might be able to get some PD "fixes" to the above
two synths to incorporate this inter-phoneme "smoothing" effect? Thanks in
advance.
-Benjamin Bryant
<bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu> 



Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: jimw@empros.cxn.dec.com (Jim West)
Subject: Re: Dialogic .VOX file format info wanted
Reply-To: j_west@zebpik.enet.dec.com
Organization: Random Mixed
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:57:46 GMT


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.

-/ Jim /-
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: bradford@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (James Bradford)
Subject: Measuring Speech Duration
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:15:58 GMT

A few months back I posted a request for information on algorithms 
for measuring the duration of spoken utterances.  I received a number 
of very helpful replies.  The paper I found the most useful was:

     Rabiner, L.R. and Sambur, M.R., "An algorithm for 
     determining the endpoints of isolated utterances," The Bell 
     System Technical Journal, 54(2), 1975, pp 297-315.

The paper contains a couple of typos that slowed us down a bit.
If anyone else plans to implement the Rabiner algorithm, I'll
be happy to provide our corrections.  

In the last couple of days I have run 3 subjects with 10 trials 
each (the input text was "The quick brown fox jumped over the 
lazy dog").  This (very) preliminary pilot study suggests our 
subjects have a durational precision of +/- 5% of their mean 
duration.  If the results hold for a statistically valid sample,
I wonder if a small, speaker independent recognizer with a 
carefully chosen vocabulary might be based on duration alone?  

Anyway, my thanks to everyone who replied.  Your help was much 
appreciated.


James Bradford, Director
The Speech Interface Lab,
Brock University
EMail: bradford@spartan.ac.BrockU.ca

Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: ristad@elan (Eric Sven Ristad)
Subject: speech recognition text
Organization: Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:26:41 GMT


Can you please recommend an up-to-date speech recognition text that
covers HMMs as well as some signal processing and pattern recognition?
Thanks,
Eric
From: tony@microware.co.uk (Tony Mountifield)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: Fundamental Frequencies of the Musical Notes
Date: 2 Jan 93 10:26:03 GMT
Organization: Microware Systems (UK) Ltd., Winchester, UK.

In article <TED.93Jan1173824@lole.nmsu.edu> ted@nmsu.edu writes:
> 
> >   Could you tell me, is there agreement on the absoulute frequencies?
> 
> 440 A and 256 C define slightly different scales that are used in
> slightly different situations.  i think that most pianos are usually tuned
> with 256 = C, while orchestras (in my limited experience) invariably
> use 440 = A

You will find that (nowadays, at least) pianos are tuned to A = 440 too,
which is known as Concert Pitch. Otherwise, how would a Piano Concerto
be performed?

Tony.
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Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: taihou@iss.nus.sg (Tng Tai Hou)
Subject: Re: MacInTalk enhancement
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:50:19 GMT

No. Macintalk is parametric based. Not concatenative.

Tai Hou
Singapore
From: kzt50@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (  911  Kevin Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Allophone speech synthesis
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:05:19 GMT
Reply-To: kzt50@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (  911  Kevin Thomas)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


Could somebody please send me some information on speech synthesizers
using allophones, and the software needed to run them.
Thanks
Kevin Thomas.
From: tonto@cbnews.cb.att.com (daniel.s.stoops)
Subject: Looking for speech databases
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:08:33 GMT
Followup-To: att!cbvox!tonto
Summary: Use/Purchase International Speech Databases
Keywords: speech database 

Hello world,

    In an AT&T project, i am looking for existing speech databases
that cover a basic vocabulary of spoken digits.  We're looking for
a variety of countries/languages.

    If you know of any databases or can point me in the right
direction, please give me a call at USA 614-860-3053, send me email
at att!cbvox!tonto, or post back to the news group (i think i have
read other requests like this.)

						Thanks for any help,
~r disclamer						-dan
Xref: sparky comp.speech:421 sci.lang:8680
From: cole@harpo.cse.ogi.edu (Ron Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.speech,sci.lang
Subject: Report Available: Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding
Keywords: speech, workshop, language understanding
Date: 8 Jan 93 00:16:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.48208
Distribution: world
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute - Computer Science & Engineering


	Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding	

The technical report entitled ``Workshop on Spoken Language
Understanding'' was authored by participants of a workshop
sponsored by the NSF in February, 1992.  The workshop brought
together scientists from a number of disciplines to identify
research directions needed to produce spoken language systems, and
the infrastructure needed to support the research.  

``A spoken language system combines speech recognition, natural
language processing and human interface technology. It functions by
recognizing the person's words, interpreting the sequence of words to
obtain a meaning in terms of the application, and providing an
appropriate response back to the user.  Potential applications of
spoken language systems range from simple tasks, such as retrieving
information from an existing database (traffic reports, airline
schedules), to interactive problem solving tasks involving complex
planning and reasoning (travel planning, traffic routing), to support
for multi-lingual interactions.''

The report examines seven key areas in which basic research is needed
to produce spoken language systems: (1) Robust Speech Recognition; 
(2) Automatic Training and Adaptation; (3) Spontaneous Speech; 
(4) Dialogue Models; (5) Natural Language Response Generation; 
(6) Speech Synthesis and Generation; (7) Multi-lingual Systems; and 
(8) Interactive Multimodal Systems.  In each area, the report identifies
the key research challenges, and the potential benefits of the
research.  Additional sections of the report identify the
infrastructure needed to support research and the expected benefits of
the research.  Finally, a set of recommendations are made to the NSF.

A postscript file of the report can be obtained by anonymous ftp from:

	%ftp cse.ogi.edu  or  [129.95.40.2]
	Name:  anonymous
	Password:  [your name]
        ftp> cd pub
        ftp> cd tech-reports
        ftp> cd 1992
        ftp> binary
        ftp> get 92-014.ps.Z
        ftp> quit

Finally, the "92-014.ps.Z" file is in compressed format.  Use the
Unix command "uncompress 92-014.ps.Z" to uncompress the file, which
automatically removes the ".Z" suffix.  Its is
now ready to print.

A hard copy may be obtained by surface mail by sending your
address to vincew@cse.ogi.edu.
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu (Ben Bryant)
Subject: The Klatt Synthesizer for Sparcs 
Reply-To: bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:34:24 GMT

Hello all,
Now that I have the Klatt synth for Sparcs, what do I do with it? I have
compiled the command line menu version, and would like to hear some speech
on the machine. Am I missing some speech files or do I need to create them,
or what? -Has anyone used this synth before? -I was under the impression
it was a simple TTS synth from the command line.... HELP!

-Ben B.
<bdbryan@eng.clemson.edu>
From: estephen@whosnext.cad.gatech.edu (Eric R Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: MacInTalk enhancement
Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:09:28 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: whosnext.cad.gatech.edu

Is there a way to make MacInTalk more realistic sounding by replacing  
the phonetics with samples?
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: raman@cs.cornell.edu (T. V. Raman)
Subject: Klatt synthesizer posting:
Summary: Need Klatt sources:
Keywords: Klatt synthesizer, uencoded files, could someone repost, 
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:15:52 GMT




Hi!

I failed completely in trying to unpack the klatt synthesizer from the
posting on usenet.

For one thing, the postings were confused by replies to the first part
of the three part posting, secondly things were complicated by the
presence of signatures at the end of the uuencoded files.

Could someone repost, or mail me a copy? Alternately, could someone
point me to an ftp site?

Thanks,

--Raman
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From: mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu (Michael M Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Formant tracking
Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:53:49 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


Looking for pointers to the state of the art in
formant tracking - books, articles, code, whatever...
Thanks in advance, MMCohen

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From: x89olarte1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Spanish with SoundBlaster card
Date: 8 Jan 93 12:54:43 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <LIROU.93Jan8112054@irit.irit.fr>, lirou@irit.irit.fr (Patrick LIROU) writes:
> 
> I'm using SmooothTalker, a text to speech driver manufactured by First Byte,
> with a SoundBlaster card.
> 
> I'm looking for a version producing french speech or an equivalent product.
> 
> Who can help?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Patrick LIROU               UUCP: lirou@irit (...!mcsun!inria!irit!lirou)
> INTERNET: lirou@irit.fr

I need the same thing for spanish...

Thanks

Enrique   (please E-mail)
Newsgroups: comp.speech