Ignatius Mattingly [5], working with British collaborators, John N. Holmes [6] and J.N. Shearme [7], adapted the Haskins Pattern playback rules to write the first computer program for synthesizing continuous speech from a phonetically spelled input. A further step toward a reading machine for the blind combined Mattingly's program with an automatic look-up procedure for converting alphabetic text into strings of phonetic symbols.[1] In the 1960s he also produced the first prosodic synthesis by rule.[2]
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