“…A new spectrum analyzer has been designed for on-line operation with a computer, including such tasks as varying formant and anti-formant information, i.e., to take samples of natural speech, to extract parameters, and to try to replicate them with the speech synthesizer. (See Stevens, 1968). 5.56a "A speech synthesis program was written at Manchester (Mathers, 1964) based on the Parametric Artificial Talker at Edinburgh University (Anthony and Lawrence, 1962).…”