Linguistic Prerequisites for a Speech Writer

Abstract

The first step in the construction of a speech writer must be concerned with the conversion of the flow of speech into discrete operations. Such operations have been brought within the realm of possibility by recent developments in the analysis and synthesis of speech in terms of frequency functions instead of pressure functions. The present paper deals primarily with the phonetic and graphic aspects of the response and discrimination required of the machine and the dictating person. Certain simplifications of design can be effected by consideration of the orthography of the language to be speech-written.