Evening journal., 1898-02-01
The DUNE MAY SPEAK.
An inventor Claims Discovery which
VIII Produce Speech.

NOW tnaJ mdcnlncS nave Dcen maQc
30 repeat articulate speech, as the pho
hograph and the gramophone, the next
wonder which has been announced as a
Ecientifc discovery by an eminent in
Aentor is that by means of a simple ma
| chine the dumb can be made TO speak
knd the organs Of our churches and con-
eert halls deliver orations, songs, and
operas as If they were intelligent hui
man beings. IL is not reproduction Of
something which has come from the
mouth of human being-it is apply
ing to person part of an organ and
combining the properties of the two
in such a way that the organ is governed
entirely by the intelligence of a man,
| vet, though he says nothing, from the
instrument will come the sound as IL
he were speaking, only in volume and
tone the sound being that given by the
Instrument.
In other words, the miracle of the
! Bible will be performed in simple way
by science, and just as the eyes of the
blind have been opened by the oculist's
knife in cutting cataract or the deaf
made TO hear by means Of the denta-
phone, so now there comes into the use
pf man an invention which will supply
the wanting sounds and enable him TO
eonverse with articulated speech. And
The huge power OF the organ or the siren
on the shore can be converted into songs
that will fill city or choir that cost but
! little, yet render the most attractive
music for opera or church.
Mr.. Berliner's first conception OF the
idea OF making an instrument produce
speech of itself, instead of reproducing
that Of persons. was due 20 the fact, so
he AYERS, that the mode Of vocalization
in the human body can be almost en-
hrely counterfeited by mechanism, and
that Il occurred TO him that II would be
b useful thing to apply the principles TO
human vocalization so that the ex-
pensive choirs OF churches could be
obviated by machinery. That he has
produced by machinery such speech--in
bther words, that he has "nade an organ
tallS"-he asserts is true, and that the
experiments, while yet In their infancy,
show conclusively that the completion
Of his apparatus Is but q matter of time
md study of the human voice.
The method employed by Mr.. Berliner
in his experiment was extremely sim
pie. Regarding the organ and the body,
t will be remembered that the lungs
pf person act as n pair Of bellows, that
the windpipe is the organ through
which the air is pumped, and that the
vocal chords give the sound pitch. the
words being formed by the movement
Of the tongue, teeth, and lips combined.
Now, the sound Of q tone as it comes out
pf an organ pipe is similar TO that given
up by the human windpipe before the
words have been articulated by the
mouth. Hence, Mr.. Berliner reasoned,
II this pipe sound of the organ could
he conveyed to the mouth, just back in
the throat, and articulated properly by
= the right motions Of the lips, tongue
Ind teeth, the organ could be made to
= talk.
= With a bit Of rubber tubing, which
was placed with one end in pair OF
bellows, and the other at the back oil
: the mouth, he found that by simply Civ.
ing TO the mouth the motions it would
. use in uttering certain words the cor.
rect sound was produced on the volume
IF air coming out of the tube In the
: mouth, just as IL would have been made
e by the mouth in speaking with air from
! The windpipe. Though not a sound was
! uttered by his own mouth, which dumb
! ly went through the pantomime mo-
lions used in articulation, there were
! words spoken by the vibrations just as
II they were done In the ordinary way
only, of course, as there was no use
of the vocal chords which give the vary
, ing pitch. the sound was all in the same
/ key.
, The use in churSh choirs would be q
= Preat feature Of the service. Mr.. Ber.
) liner suggests that for q choir there
> pught to be four men, each one articu
D 'ating from a different tube, represent
e ing different pitches or different voices
I tuch as bass, tenor, soprano, and con
, tralto Thus all the varying shades OF
= music could be cheaply produced at a
I, third of the present expense.
But the chief benefit to humanity will
q be the use TO which the dumb can put
3 this new invention. The dumb are able
= to move the lips in the motions used IN
' speaking, though they cannot utter q
y sound. Now, If the sound be brought
: into the back of the mouth, forced out
\ and properly articulated by the teeth
l lips and tongue of the dumb person, the
E result win be speech. With the simpl,
md cheap apparatus this effect can b'
|, obtained. OF course, it win requir,
Z time for such person TO learn the cor
I rect motions to give to the mouth in or
derto produce the right words, but tha'
S win come readily with the practice, JUS
= rs one learns the typewriter or to ride
p the bicycle.-Washington Cor. Phila
e Ielphia Times.
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