kjartan@rhi.uucp (Kjartan R. Gudmundsson) (10/20/87)
I want to continue my study in computer science in next autumn and I would like to continue my work on text-to-speech for my language, Icelandic. I am also interested in speech recognition. I think it would be interesting to study in school were this work has already been done for some language ( the text-to-speech part). I received BS degree in february 1986 and have been working at the university since, (University of Iceland, Reykjavik). Can anyone out there in netland recommend a university that is strong in this field? The university has to be in an english speeking country or Scandinavia.
forrest@blia.BLI.COM (Jon Forrest) (10/27/87)
You might be in luck, although my information is probably old. Back in 1976 I worked at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm on a text-to-speech system. There were two versions, one from Swedish to Swedish, and the other English to English. I worked briefly on the English to English system. This was one of the first text-to-speech systems and was based on the work done at the Naval Research Lab and at MIT. My boss was Gunnar Fant who is now semi-retired. You should contact the Institute for Speech Transmission at RIT. Jon Forrest ucbvax!mtxinu!blia!forrest {pyramid|voder}!blia!forrest