OT-ish? McIlroy's "Synthetic English Speech by Rule"

[John Floren]

Anybody have a copy of "Comp. Sci. Tech. Rep. #14"? Perhaps it was
published in the Bell Labs Technical Journal, or whatever they were
calling it in 1973-74?

Have you considered just emailing the author directly and asking about
a copy? It's been about 35 years now, I'd imagine he'd send you a PDF
if he has one around... http://plan9.bell-labs.com/who/doug/ for
contact details.

John

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu <jzg22 at drexel.edu> wrote:
> I know this is a 'blast from the past', but did anyone ever find the McIlroy
> paper? The McIlroy algorithm both inspired and was in direct competition
> with the NRL algorithm. The NRL algorithm was developed by Votrax and the
> Naval Research Laboratory, details of which are discussed in another paper
> (NTIS ADA0121 929, NRL report 7948) which is available from the national
> archives in college park, MD. (I'm planning to get a copy of the latter, but
> have no idea how to get a copy of the M. D. McIlroy paper. the version in
> the journal of the acoustical society of america is not the complete paper,
> but a citation of it for a conference, afaict)
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> --
> Jonathan Gevaryahu
> jgevaryahu(@t)hotmail(d0t)com
> jzg22(@t)drexel(d0t)edu
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> Don Y* dgy at DakotaCom.Net
> <mailto:cctech%40classiccmp.org?Subject=OT-ish%3F%20%20McIlroy%27s%20%22Synthetic%20English%20Speech%20by%20Rule%22&In-Reply-To=>
> /Wed Jul 19 21:37:44 CDT 2006
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> My only claim to being *possibly* on-topic is the age
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> of the article (1974) and the fact that it inspired
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> many of the early phoneme-driven speech synthesizers
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> (Votrax, etc.).
>
> Does anyone have access to a suitably good engineering
>
> library with a copy of:
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> McIlroy, M D,  "Synthetic English Speech by Rule",
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> Bell Telephone Labs, CSTR #14, 1973 (though I have
>
> also seen it referenced as 1974!)
>
> or:
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> Ainsworth, W A, "A System for Converting English Text
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> to Speech", IEEE Trans Audio & Electroacoustics AU-21 #3
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> pp 288-290, 1973
>
> The former is far more interesting to me than the
>
> latter  :-(
>
> (sigh)  There are *some* advantages to being a student
>
> (though those days are long past, in my case!)
>
> I can try my local public library to see if it is
>
> available via ILL.  I guess I could also try the local
>
> university's engineering library.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --don
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