Hector who was he? Flor here by kind assistance of my cousin Eric and I
know I had heard it some where and other than the Mythecal fellow we
foound yesterday. remember Dorothy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Archer" <archer4491@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Claire Ingram-Gorban" <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:59 PM
Subject: Re Your Multiple E-Mails
Dear Claire
Thanks for your latest batch.
In the first one that came you said about a speech
engine which pre-dated JAWS.
I found a piece on the net describing a speech engine
called HECTOR which this chap made to read, store &
then speak items from a newspaper.
"Electronic news reception apparatus that selectively
retains sections and searches by keyword or index for
text to speech conversion , United States Patent
5924068
Abstract: An electronic news receiving device
receives text data for an electronic edition of a
newspaper in the evening and audibly reads the
newspaper to the user the next day. The newsreader
includes a receiver which receives an electronic
edition of a newspaper transmitted by a transmitter at
an electronic news preparer's facility. The news
preparer may mark words that do not conform to
conventional letter-to-sound rules with a
pronunciation flag and provide pronunciation data for
the words with the electronic edition of the
newspaper. The data may be compressed by providing a
dictionary in the news receiving device and, at the
preparer's facility, translating each word into a
dictionary address. The transmission channel may
include a telephone line, the vertical blanking
interval of a television signal, a cable television
channel, an AM/FM subcarrier signal or a satellite
channel. The received electronic edition of the
newspaper is processed by a section filter to retain
desired sections of the newspaper and to discard
unwanted sections. The retained news articles are
stored in memory. A text-to-speech converter produces
an audible output corresponding to the spoken text of
the news articles. A user can input one or more
keywords to cause the device to selectively read
articles containing the keywords. The text to speech
converter of the device uses rules and a dictionary to
provide syntactic and semantic prosody for morpheme
reconstructions. The user may determine which articles
are read and may vary the rate at which articles are
read using manual controls or spoken commands."
I don't know if that was the "HECTOR" you were talking
about but that was the only one I could find.
Incidentally ALL your e-mails came in a readable form.
Thanks Again
Eric
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