Synthetic English speech by rule

A relatively small computer program produces synthetic speech from English text for a phoneme‐driven synthesizer. The speech is not inflected, but within that constraint is deemed intelligible on at least 97% of the words in typical runing text. The program works almost entirely by rules, most of which have a stereotyped form. Since no large dictionary is needed, secondary storage is not used. All the rules are given, together with examples of their behavior.