> Perfect Paul would end up being a model emulating how Klatt talked in his younger days.
Anyone who started life as a drunken Swedish sailor then went on to invent something like DECTalk has done well.
I worked on a shipping product that used DECTalk back in the 1980s and I can still hear that voice. There were certain words we could just never get it to say correctly, even when spelled out using the special DECTalk phonetic codes. The one I remember strongest was a customer name ("Guelph" properly pronounced "gwelf" but the closest DECTalk could get was something like "welp"). Given that it's been almost 40 years and it's still burned into my brain, I may have DECTalk trauma.
Anyone who started life as a drunken Swedish sailor then went on to invent something like DECTalk has done well.
I worked on a shipping product that used DECTalk back in the 1980s and I can still hear that voice. There were certain words we could just never get it to say correctly, even when spelled out using the special DECTalk phonetic codes. The one I remember strongest was a customer name ("Guelph" properly pronounced "gwelf" but the closest DECTalk could get was something like "welp"). Given that it's been almost 40 years and it's still burned into my brain, I may have DECTalk trauma.