Prose 2000 Circuit Board for Text to Speech Conversion
date: label: date made
content: 1983
notes: label: Description
content: From at least the 1960s, James Bliss and his colleagues worked make it possible to synthesize human speech electronically. In 1982, Speech Plus Inc. was formed, with James Bliss as director and input from Telesensory Systems Inc. The first product of Speech Plus, Inc., introduced in 2000, was the Prose 2000 circuit board, of which this is an example. It was an unlimited vocabulary text to speech system.
label: Description
content: The materials, along with the rest of the accession and acquisition 2010.3016, are a gift of James White Glenn.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: California, Pasadena
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: James Glenn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0054.04
label: accession number
content: 2010.0054
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0054.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: circuit board
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 30.5 cm x 18 cm; 9/16 in x 12 in x 7 1/16 in