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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. Written on tape: Session code 13
Type
sound
Format
Copy Stereo Audio cassette
Form/Genre
Lectures
Extent
1 Tape of 1
Identifier
102738892 camvchm_000148
Language
English
Subject
West Coast Computer Faire Exhibitions Computers Speech synthesis
Provenance
Computer History Museum California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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