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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>We're finishing the software this week. My
favorette part of the software is, we have bios of the original Dectalk
team. It will really be nice!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>I wanted to scream last night. <A
href="http://www.dogpile.com">www.dogpile.com</A> brought of sound files of
Dennis's original work. I wish we had time to add them to the CD in
Dennis's small write up, but we can't. We need this done in time for
C-sun.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>SNOOPI</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 3/12/2006 4:16:45 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
corine.bickley@gallaudet.edu writes:</DIV>
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<P><FONT size=4>hi everyone -</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4>i just wanted to add a small note to snoopi's message about
being sort of adopted by dectalk. i'm someone who was lucky enough to be able
to be a student of Dennis Klatt. i arrived at MIT in 1979, and right away took
Dennis' Speech Lab class and started working on speech synthesis. one of the
stories Dennis used to tell us frequently was why he made DECtalk sing, which
was to give a musical voice to persons like Snoopi, and that the first song
that Dennis programmed was Happy Birthday to his daughter Laura. So, I feel
that Snoopi is carrying on the musical tradition that was one of Dennis'
motivations for working on speech synthesis in the first place. Snoopi is not
"adopted" - he's the next generation of the DECtalk family that Dennis
fathered.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT
size=4>corine</FONT></P><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>DECtalk
mailing
list<BR>DECtalk@bluegrasspals.com<BR>http://jaybird.no-ip.info/mailman/listinfo/dectalk<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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