Two electrical devices for simulating the operating of the speech mechanism are described. One synthesizer is a variable transmission-line analog of the vocal tract. The other synthesizer incorporates variable simple-tuned circuits to represent vocal-tract resonances and can be made to generate simple sentences under the control of a teletype tape and relays, or an analyzer that extracts appropriate control signals from human speech.

Author: Stevens, Kenneth N.
Affiliation: Acoustics Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
JAES Volume 4 Issue 1 pp. 2-8; January 1956
Publication Date: January 1, 1956

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