Federal Support for the Development of Speech Synthesis Technologies: A Case Study of the Kurzweil Reading Machine.
This case study situates an early text-to-speech computer developed for blind persons, the Kurzweil Reading Machine (KRM), within a broader history of speech synthesis technologies. Though typically no more than a footnote in the technical history of speech synthesis, the KRM was still a powerful sy...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 39 - 66 |
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University of Texas Press
2023
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