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Who invented speech synthesis voices?

Who invented speech synthesis voices?

How was the operation of the Voder, developed by Homer Dudley, primarily controlled when unveiled at the 1939 New York World's Fair?

How was the operation of the Voder, developed by Homer Dudley, primarily controlled when unveiled at the 1939 New York World's Fair?

What acoustic principle underpinned the rule-based Formant Synthesis developed after the move to solid-state electronics in the 1960s?

What acoustic principle underpinned the rule-based Formant Synthesis developed after the move to solid-state electronics in the 1960s?

What inherent limitation often introduced audible artifacts into speech generated by Concatenative Synthesis methods?

What inherent limitation often introduced audible artifacts into speech generated by Concatenative Synthesis methods?

What process did the Vocoder, developed by Homer Dudley’s team after the Voder, perform on human speech input?

What process did the Vocoder, developed by Homer Dudley’s team after the Voder, perform on human speech input?

Which specific deep learning architecture, developed by DeepMind, famously generated high-fidelity speech by predicting one audio sample at a time?

Which specific deep learning architecture, developed by DeepMind, famously generated high-fidelity speech by predicting one audio sample at a time?

In Concatenative Synthesis, what factor was directly dependent on the quality of the final voice output achieved by stitching segments?

In Concatenative Synthesis, what factor was directly dependent on the quality of the final voice output achieved by stitching segments?

What statistical modeling tool formed the foundation of the Statistical Parametric Approach emerging in the late 1980s and 1990s?

What statistical modeling tool formed the foundation of the Statistical Parametric Approach emerging in the late 1980s and 1990s?

What crucial capability did the rudimentary acoustic devices like 'talking tubes' in the 18th and 19th centuries fundamentally lack compared to later synthesized speech?

What crucial capability did the rudimentary acoustic devices like 'talking tubes' in the 18th and 19th centuries fundamentally lack compared to later synthesized speech?

Based on the historical progression described, where did the burden of expertise shift when moving from operating the Voder to deploying modern Neural TTS systems?

Based on the historical progression described, where did the burden of expertise shift when moving from operating the Voder to deploying modern Neural TTS systems?

Which academic project originating at the University of Edinburgh was instrumental in developing toolkits like Flite and voice models such as 'C59' for concatenative synthesis research?

Which academic project originating at the University of Edinburgh was instrumental in developing toolkits like Flite and voice models such as 'C59' for concatenative synthesis research?