Speech Synthesis
Ignatius Mattingly, working with British collaborators, John N. Holmes and J.N. Shearme, adapted the Haskins Pattern playback rules to write the first computer program for synthesizing continuous speech from a phonetically spelled input. A further step toward a reading machine for the blind combined Mattingly's program with an automatic look-up procedure for converting alphabetic text into strings of phonetic symbols. In the 1960s he also produced the first prosodic synthesis by rule.
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