Phasor (sound synthesizer)

The song "Dance of the Plastic Forks in the Pizza Parlor" in the Phasor Music Player.

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

Phasor Manual

Speech synthesis

Proprietary software	BrowseAloud CereProc DECtalk IVONA Microsoft Agent Microsoft Speech API Microsoft text-to-speech voices Readspeaker Talk It! Voice browser Vocaloid Cantor Voiceroid CeVIO Creative Studio Vocalina NIAONiao Virtual Singer Utau

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

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

Developers/ Researchers	Catherine Browman Franklin Seaney Cooper Gunnar Fant Haskins Laboratories Wolfgang von Kempelen Ignatius Mattingly Philip Rubin VoiceWeb VoiceXML Yamaha

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