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Re:ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred ... by maksimur on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:23AM (#40234246)
> The technique predates computers; it's basically the same technique used by the original voder [1] just under computer control.

Something similar from the 800s is the Euphonia talking machine ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphonia_(device) ).

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Re:ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred ... by nkozyra on Thursday May 02, 2024 @10:49AM (#40236954)
* 1800s

Clicked that thinking someone had made a talking machine in the Middle Ages :)

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Re:ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred ... by maksimur on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:23PM (#40240403)
Oops :)
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