Microcomputer Peripheral, Intel Speech Transaction Development Set
date: label: date made
content: 1983-1985
name: label: maker
content: Intel Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This set includes a speech translation board (with attached expansion board), a smaller detached board, a white box that serves as an operator control unit, a headset with microphone and a second microphone that fit in a black box, and various cables. It is designed both to interpret spoken language and to generate speech. There also are the following manuals:
label: Description
content: Speech Transaction Manager Reference Manual, version 2, June 1984.
label: Description
content: Speech Tranaction Manager Reference Manual Change Notice, 1984
label: Description
content: ISBC 570/576 Speech Transaction Development Set Hardware Reference Manual, 1984 (with loose diagram). This appears to be a photocopy.
label: Description
content: Speech Transaction Generator Software Reference Manual, 1983.
label: Description
content: The materials, along with the rest of the accession and acquisition 2010.3016, are a gift of James White Glenn (born 1936). Born in South Dakota, Glenn received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Colorado and then an MS (also in math) from Catholic University – the latter in 1965. He soon was working for Scope Electronics, Inc. in Reston, Virginia where he participated in DARPA-funded studies on the use of voice in controlling and learning the state of helicopters. By the 1980s Glenn had his own consulting firm, Glenn Associates (also in Virginia) and had established the magazine Speech Technology – which continues to this day, though not under his leadership. He also wrote general accounts of voice recognition in the period.
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content: Currently not on view
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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: 2010.0054.03
label: accession number
content: 2010.0054
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0054.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microcomputer peripheral
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 54 cm x 32 cm; 4 5/16 in x 21 1/4 in x 12 5/8 in
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content: small white box: 8.4 cm x 21 cm x 20 cm; 3 5/16 in x 8 1/4 in x 7 7/8 in
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content: documents: 2.8 cm x 21.5 cm x 28.4 cm; 1 1/8 in x 8 7/16 in x 11 3/16 in
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content: larger circuit board: 1.3 cm x 31.1 cm x 18.1 cm; 1/2 in x 12 1/4 in x 7 1/8 in
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content: microphones & headset: 5.9 cm x 30 cm x 21 cm; 2 5/16 in x 11 13/16 in x 8 1/4 in