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Due to original recording and/or condition when digitized: phasing, distortion, high backgrond noise, channel imbalance, crosstalk.
Title
Talking machines: how they do it
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Created Date
April 1981
Description
The West Coast Computer Faire was an annual computer industry conference and exposition. The first faire was held in 1977 and was organized by Jim Warren and Bob Relling. At the time, it was the biggest computer show in the world, intended to popularize the personal computer in the homes.
The Sixth West Coast Conference took place in San Francisco on April 3-4-5, 1981. This is the recording of the panel titled "Talking machines: how they do it".
The titles of the papers presented are:
"Access to speech synthesis and its application" by Carol A. Simpson.
"Expanding the TI speak and Spell's vocabulary with speech sound concatenation" by John P. Cater.
"Programming 'Phoneme' voice synthesizers phonetically" by Carol A. Simpson.
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Written on tape: Session code 13
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Audio cassette
Extent
1
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Country of Creation
United States
Contributing Organization
Call Number
102738892
Contributing Organization Contact Information
Phone: (650) 810-1024
Organization Websites
Link to Internet Archive
Duration
1:28:07