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Klingon speakers needed (Newton, Mass., USA); will train

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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 16:12:00 EST From: Mark@ccgate.dragonsys.com Subject: Klingon speakers needed (Newton, Mass., USA); will train

maHvaD tlhIngan Hol DajatlhtaH wIneHqu'

chen Klingon Immersion Course 'e' wIQaHmeH, QIch De' qonnIS ghargh'a' patmey malja'ghom.

As Dr. Lawrence Schoen of the Klingon Language Institute has announced here, the upcoming Klingon CD-ROM from Simon & Schuster Interactive will include a Klingon practice feature. Dragon Systems, Inc., is proud to be producing the speech recognition system for this feature... and I am enormously delighted to be working on it, and to be able to say so publicly at last. Marc Okrand, the inventor of the language, is providing the vocabulary, and we will start recording this week.

The data must be recorded on a computer, with our own program and hardware, and that means at our location in Newton, Massachusetts, a little west of Boston. This means we can't collect recordings from the widely-scattered community of Klingon speakers. On the other hand, linguists (including students!) with training in phonetics can be taught to pronounce Klingon accurately. The language is full of linguistic jokes; e.g., alveolar t and n but retroflex s and d. It also has velar fricatives, uvulars, a barred lambda, and a lot of glottal stops.

The recording should take two to three hours, plus some instructional time if you aren't already familiar with Klingon phonology (_The Klingon Dictionary, Okrand 1992, Pocket Books). If this sounds like fun to you, and if you can get yourself to Newton, your voice can be part of our model for Klingon pronunciation. Phone or email me at the contacts below.

yImImQo'! DaH HIrI'!

Mark A. Mandel Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200 320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com

[sometimes going as:] tlhIngan veQbeq marqem la'Hom : Subcommander marqem, : Klingon Sanitation Corps Heghbej ghIHmoHwI'pu'! : Death to litterbugs!

This document was created with DragonDictate for Windows. (Except for the Klingon words. We're still working on multilingual speech recognition.)

P.S.: The Klingon sentences above mean: We want you to speak Klingon for us. To help the Klingon Immersion Course get built, Dragon Systems, Inc., needs to collect speech data. Don't delay! Hail me now!

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