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ks2048 • today at 4:32 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

which is itself a version of research going back nearly 100 years.

e.g. the "Voder" by Homer Dudley - Bell Labs, 1939:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo


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merelysounds • today at 9:05 AM

Was going to write about that too! The Wikipedia article is a fun read:

> This was a complex machine to operate. After months of practice, a trained operator could produce recognizable speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voder