Kurzweil KVS

From: Brett <danjo_at_xnet.com>
Date: Thu Oct 29 07:26:05 1998

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, dave dameron wrote:
> > In a recent "Electronic Design" magazine, the column "40 years ago", there
> > was an article about IBM and digitized speech. It is an interesting column,
> > as well as Bob Pease's.
>
> Can you summarize the article? I can imagine a lot of ways to digitize
> speech without a lot of RAM, but I'm curious about what they were doing in
> the 50's with the data. I seem to remember things like "formant"
> decomposition and analysis to be reasearch topics in the 70's. Come to
> think of it, I don't even know when things like the FFT were invented, but
> I thought even that was not until the 60's or so.
> -- Doug

I remember IBM did a rather large push in the mid-60's of speech. They
even sent out records (either the flippy kind or real) with both sides of
'Bicycle Built For Two' - one which was used in '2001 - A Space Oddessy'
for Hal in shutdown mode. The first side was current technology until
this latest technology from IBM and the second side was the improved
version. Along with it was a whole ad blurb of how wonderful this would
make the world along with very little technical data.

BC
Received on Thu Oct 29 1998 - 07:26:05 GMT