#ObjectShowGuy talk’s

[anobjectshowguy]

My favorite thing right now has to be speech synthesizers!

If I don’t talk about them I’m going to EXPLODE, sorry to anyone who follows me for this long post but…

I’ve loved speech synthesis for a really long time! I think they’re really cool for a machine that was first invented in 1939 (That’s 84 years ago).

A bunch of companies made them back in the day, but the two shown here are the DECtalk Express (1994) and the Dolphin Apollo 2 (I couldn’t find when it was made, the copyright is 1998).

You may know speech synthesis like Siri or Google, but the first ever speech synthesizers made and recorded was VODER who was detected by Homer Dudley at Bell Labs in 1939. There were many other speech synthesizers after VODER.

IBM 704 7094, for example, was a speech synthesizer known for their performance of Daisy Bell (1961), they were the first ever man-made computer to sing!

(Video by Computer History Archives Project)

Another example would be tsi s14001A, also known as Otto.

(Video by Plogue Art et Technologie, Inc)

Anyways, here are some videos of the more modern speech synthesizers:

Video by Guido Lehwalder on YouTube

Video by Living Computers: Museum + Labs on YouTube

My two favorite video of these amazing machines, however, is by Per Kristian Risvik. This one has not the Intex Talker (not sure of the model) and the DECtakl Express.

And this one with the Dolphin Apollo 2 and DECtalk Express

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