LINGUIST List 2.765

Thu 07 Nov 1991

Qs: Text-to-Speech, Grammar Checkers

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    Message 1: Inquiry: Text-to-speech conversion chips

     Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1991 17:19:53 MST
    From: <li_amlewis.umt.edu>
    Subject: Inquiry: Text-to-speech conversion chips
    Information needed: George Kerscher, Dir. Research and Development Recording For The Blind P. O. Box 7068 Missoula, MT 59807 e-mail: cbfb_gwkselway.umt.edu would like to hear about development of new chips for (high quality) text-to-speech conversion such as DSP and DEC multivoice synthesizers. Contact his office directly at either of the above addresses, or reply to me and I will relay. Thanks.

    Message 2: Grammar and style checkers

     Date: Thu, 7 Nov 91 12:29 GMT
    From: <Arie.Verhagenlet.ruu.nl>
    Subject: Grammar and style checkers
    A number of people in the Dept. of Dutch of the University of Utrecht would like to learn about computer programs performing grammar and/or style checking, specifically on personal computers. The idea is to learn about other people's experiences (with other languages) before we decide to start research aimed at the development of such a system for Dutch. We are interested in all kinds of information, for example: - What programs are available? Where? For what costs? On what kinds of machines? Etc. - What kind of output does a program generate? (E.g. short comments on particular topics, or large sized reports on any relevant feature (as STYLE on Unix-systems does)). - What kind of computational mechanisms are used? (E.g. pattern recognition or parsing on the basis of a complete grammar). - Do the programs come with documenation? - Has any research been published about how and when people use such programs and how they evaluate them? - Etc., etc. We would greatly appreciate all relevant information. We are willing to post the information, or to send it directly to your e-mail address (please indicate if you're interested). Please send messages to: verhagenlet.ruu.nl Thanks, --Arie Verhagen Arie Verhagen University of Utrecht, Dept. of Dutch Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands phone: (30) 394131 fax: (30) 333380