https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/technology/ann-syrdal-who-helped-give-computers-a-female-voice-dies-at-74.html As a researcher at AT&T, she helped lay the groundwork for modern digital assistants like Siri and Alexa. Dr. Sydral’s research at Bell Labs in speech synthesis was incorporated into AT&T’s Natural Voices, which in 1998 was cutting edge technology. It was later the foundation for the modern Siri…Read more…
A *VERY* over simplification of how the old phone system used 2600 Hz as the key frequency for handing answer supervision and SF (single frequency) dialing. Of course discovered by accident using a “Captain Crunch” whistle that just happened to be at 2600 Hz.
Welcome to the new Telephone World! We are making a brand new site from scratch. If you were a user at the old site, you’ll see most of that site being recreated here, and new things added. LOTS of updates need to be made! So hold tight while the old…Read more…