Kurzweil KVS

From: dave dameron <ddameron_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Thu Oct 29 19:48:46 1998

Hi Doug and all,
At 02:22 AM 10/29/98 -0600, you 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.
>
I don't have it anymore, it had a lot to do with sampling and compression,
as they had only 32k memory. It appeared in the last 4 months, so the
original article was in 1958. Maybe someone else can find it easily?
-Dave
Received on Thu Oct 29 1998 - 19:48:46 GMT