Computer Speech

From the album liner notes written by D.H. VanLenten: "This recording contains samples of synthesized speech - speech artificially constructed from the basic building blocks of the English language. A machine which produces synthesized speech is called, fittingly, a talking machine. There are many possible kinds of speech synthesizers or talking machines. Instead of building and testing a variety of them, scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories simulate their behaviour with a high-speed, gene...