Phasor (sound synthesizer)

Phasor
The song "Dance of the Plastic Forks in the Pizza Parlor" in the Phasor Music Player.
Developer(s)	Applied Engineering
Initial release	1984 (1984)
Platform	Apple II
Type	stereo music, sound and speech synthesizer

Phasor is a stereo music, sound and speech synthesizer created by Applied Engineering for the Apple II family of computers. Consisting of a sound card and a set of related software, the Phasor system was designed to be compatible with most software written for other contemporary Apple II cards, including the Mockingboard, ALF's Apple Music Synthesizer, Echo+ and Super Music Synthesizer.

References

Notes

Phasor Manual

Speech synthesis

Free software	eSpeak Gnopernicus Gnuspeech Orca Festival Speech Synthesis System FreeTTS Sinsy Automatik Text Reader

Proprietary software	DECtalk Software Automatic Mouth Talk It! Microsoft Agent Microsoft Speech API Microsoft text-to-speech voices Readspeaker Voice browser CoolSpeech BrowseAloud LaLaVoice Vocaloid Cantor Symphonic Choirs IVONA CereProc Utau Voiceroid NIAONiao Virtual Singer Vocalina Realivox CeVIO Creative Studio Chipspeech Alter/Ego PPG Phonem

Machine	Echo 2 Pattern playback Phasor RIAS Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips TuVox

Applications	AOLbyPhone DialogOS Dr. Sbaitso MBROLA Microsoft Narrator Microsoft Speech Server PlainTalk Voice font

Protocols	Speech Synthesis Markup Language SABLE VoiceXML

Developers/ Researchers	Alan W. Black Catherine Browman Franklin Seaney Cooper Gunnar Fant Haskins Laboratories Wolfgang von Kempelen Ignatius Mattingly Philip Rubin Yamaha

Process	Articulatory synthesis Concatenative synthesis Currah Inverse filter PSOLA Phase vocoder Self-voicing

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