A look at speech synthesis and speech recognition technologies and applications with host, Stewart Cheifet, co-host, Herb Lechner (SRI International), and guests Carl Berne (Speech Plus), and Ron Stevens (Votan). Products discussed and demonstrated during the program include Minolta's Talking Camera, Texas Instruments' Speak & Spell, a text-to-speech system from Speech Plus, and the Votan V-5000 speech recognition system. The program also includes two "Computer Principles" lessons from Herb Lechner as well as his Chronicles' Summary.
Date of Video:
1984
Color. Sound. Length (min:sec): 29:22.
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KCSM-TV San Mateo, CA
Interesting Clips:
6:39 explanation of how a computer synthesizes speech
11:09 text-to-speech demo
14:42 text-to-speech board
18:21 speech recognition demo
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