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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1939-02-09, Page 5Thursday, February 9, 1939 WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES PAGE M be delivered. Both France and Bri­ tain will pay cash for any airplanes purchased in the United States, de­ clared president Roosevelt. UNCLE SAM’S CONTRIBUTION TO JOHN BULL’S AIR FORCE - O£ Winter Coats •J PRE-INVENTORY SALE Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Feb, 9,10,11 Final Clearance PRICE Buy your Winter Coat Now and Save. Diadem Sports Wool BALL The Colors are Scarlet, Tile, Lipstick, Rose, Shell Pink, Corn Gold, Tangerine, Fawn, Violet, Fla'me Orange, Black and White. COTTON BROADCLOTH 36 inch broadcloth in colors of Rose, . Green, Blue, Sand and White. Week- End Special, Per Yard.......... 21 Inch 36 Inch White 10c FACTORY 15c Flannelette Yard COTTON Yard Hemstitched^ _Men’s Wool PILLOW 25 WORK 25c CASES Each SOCKS Pair COLORED TERRY TOWELS Terry Hand Towels, natural color, with fancy colored striped patterns of | 11/* Red and Green. Size 15x32 in. Each HOSIERY ' SPECIAL SATIN SLIPS SHEERS, CHIFFON, ‘ LIGHT SERVICE In a good assortment of colors and sizes. Slightly imperfect. Sizes 8/2 to 10</2. Made of a heavy quality Satin in White and Tea Rose, Lace and Fagott trim­ med, mostly large sizes. Reg. ' Value $1.98. Week-End Spe­ cial $1.29. ‘Walker Stores, £imited ' JOSEPHINE ST. PHONE 36 WINGHAM THE VODER A Development of Bell Laboratories (The Blue Bell) An electrical device, which, under control of an operator at a keyboard, actually talks, was demonstrated on January 5th at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Known as the (Voder, it is a development of Bell Labora­ tories as a scientific novelty to make an interesting educational exhibit for the Bell System’s displays at the San • Francisco Exposition and at the World’s1 Fair in New York. It is built, except for its keys, entirely of apparatus used in everyday telephone service. . . . The Voder creates speech. It is the .first machine in the world to do that. Individual vowels and consonants have been made by a variety of in­ struments, but they have never been linked into connected speech. Seated at a keyboard something like that of the old-fashioned parlor organ, an op­ erator can carry on a conversation simply by pressing keys, singly or in combination. It takes a good deal of practice and some time to learn—not as much time as it takes the human to learn the mechanisms he is born with, but still quite a while. And it talks with what might be called a slight electrical accent. Nevertheless a skilled operator can make it say what she wants. Designers of the Voder provided it with electrical equipment correspond­ ing to the. two kinds of speech sounds. One kind of sound is made Men’s Dominion Ski Championships at Fort William The best skiers of Canada will meet stiff international com­ petition when the Men’s Dominion Ski Championships are contested kt Fort William, Ont., from Feb­ ruary 24 to 26. The Lakehead city has every­ thing in its favor in its efforts to sponsor the most successful Do­ minion championships in tho his­ tory of the sport in Canada. Not only la the terrain suitable for a meet Of such high calibre, but ski­ ing this year has reached a new peak of popularity and enthusiasm in Fort William is intense. The contests will be held on Mount McKay, towering more than 1,000 feet above the city. Many trails have been out on the forested northern slopes where there aro good conditions through­ out the winter and improvements in trails and competitive facilities make them of championship cali- bre, The 4,700-foot downhill run from the top of Mount McKay is a descent of more than 1,000 feet in less than a mile and provides thrills aplenty for contestants as well aS spectators. Thcro is a 50-metre F.I.S. standard jump and a 500-foot slalom course where the continent’s ski stars will com­ pete, The mountain, which is Within easy reach of tho city, has many nursery and practice, slopes in addition to more than 25 miles of mountain bush trails. Canada’s only electrically operated ski tow will bo in operation from the clubhouse to a 500-foot level. Rupo Edwards, Banff skier who has held many championships, is tho club’s coach. Edwards; is seen executing a perfect gclande- sprung in tho abovo layout. Tho picture also shows Aho greatly improved jump where champions of many competitions will try to bettor tho present ■Canadian record. The young lady in tho lower right corner of the pictures above is Miss Elizabeth Paterson, of Fort William, who will bo one of tho hostesses dur­ ing tho competitions. Other fair skiers ate seen testing tho new ski tow* ........._...... by forcing the breath through the mouth, past tongue, teeth and lips, turbulence In the air-stream sets up a hissing sound which contains a great many vibration-frequencies, i Some of these are reinforced by res- j onances in the mouth cavity; that is ! the way in which are made all the J sounds of speech when one whispers, and, such sounds &s s, th, and f. In the Voder there is an electrical hiss, and with some of the keys the pper- ' ator can control Jis quality so as to make those sounds, Other keys make the “stop consonants” like d, k and p. Another kind, of sound enters into human speech, most important- , ly in the vowels, like a, e, and o. It comes from the vocal cords, and is very complex and'somewhat musical. In the Voder, therefore, there is an electrical source of sound correspond­ ing to the vocal cords; and there is a pedal for changing its pitch and for giving to speech a rising or falling in­ flection as desired. When the oper­ ator wants the. sounds made by the vocal cords, instead of whispered . sounds or consonants, an arm rest swijtcfi is depressed. Then the partic­ ular parts of this vocalized sound I which are wanted are selected by playing the proper keys, | * The source for this sound is the so- called "relaxation oscillator” which i gives a saw-toothed wave in contrast to the smoothly rounded wave of a pure musical note. This saw-toothed wave has a fundamental note which gives the whole sound a definite pitch. Broad changes in this pitch mark the difference between male and female voices; gliding change of pitch over a smaller range constitutes in­ flection. The Voder may be posed as a man or a woman by turning a knob; it may state a fact, ask a ques­ tion or emphasize a word according to the motion of its pedal. When one talks one shapes his mouth cavity so that some particular parts of the complex sound come I out clearly while other parts are sup- I pressed and unheard. This makes the difference between the vowel sounds. For the same purpose the Voder is provided with ten keys. Each of these operates a variable attenuator to control the current in a definite frequency range. Source of current for each attenuator is an electrical fil- | ter which picks from the saw-tooth ' wave, one particular group of its ov­ ertones. Normally each attenuator is on open-circuit, so that no sound comes through. The vowel sounds re­ quire the selection of only one, two, three or four ranges of overtones; the other ranges contribute nothing to the sound. In human speech, some sound is found in every range, but the Voder seems to speak most understandably when the unimportant overtones are suppressed. Considering all the keys, there are twenty-three different sounds avail­ able to the-Voder operator. By com­ bination of keys she can mix these sounds and by the fingering she1 can control the shading. All speech sounds can be produced, but the num­ ber any operator can make use of de­ pends' on her finger dexterity; even granted the ability, only long prac­ tice will bring skill. The young ladies who will Francisco ed from telephone long practice they have acquired a sufficient vocabulary to converse on ordinary subjects. * ,Sounds in the Voder’s repertoire are not-confined to those of the hu­ man voice. Bleating of sheep, lowing of cattle, grunting of pigs,, and even the rat-a-tat of the woodpecker can be produced with perfect realism. The Voder is an outgrowth^ of fun­ damental researches in telephony car­ ried on in Bell Telephone Laborator­ ies. Momer W. Dudley in the course of one of these researches developed a speech synthesizer which could be controlled electrically by a speech analyzer. -Successful outcome of his work was demonstrated in Septem­ ber, 1936, at the Harvard' Tercenten­ ary in Cambridge. When the Bell System exhibits were projected for the expositions at San Francisco and New York, the synthesizer of the ap­ paratus seemed to offer possibilities for development into a novel demon­ stration which would have education­ al value since through its use the for­ mation of Speech sounds could be shown. Mr. Dudley and R. R. Riesz thereupon constructed a/nodel which has been put into form for exhibition by W. A. McNair of the laboratories’ technical staff. Difficult tasks of working out its linguistic possibilities and a technique for its operation were undertaken by S. S. A. Watkins, who developed a course of training and instructed a corps of operators. To its intimates, the Vqdfer is known as “Pedro” as a reminder of an interesting bit of history, In 1876 the telephone itself had just been in­ vented, and it was on display in Phil- a delphia’s ’’Centennial Exposition.” Dom Pddro, Emperor of Brazil, was asked from Gott! operate the Voder at San and New York were select- more than three hundred operators; and through to listen while someone talked I a few hundred feet away. “My it talks,” he exclaimed.. Were' While sales of aircraft to France are under discussion in Washington, the British air ministry announced Great Britain will purchase 250 bat­ tle airplanes from the United States in addition to the 400 already order­ Dom Pedro alive and in Philadelphia today, he would not marvel at hear­ ing voices by wire and radio from his capital, bu( if he heard words that had never come from a human voice his exclamation of 1876 might be repeat­ ed. ASHFIELD ed. Fifty will be general reconnais- saince machines, the remainder train­ ing'ships. British officers are shown here as they inspect a low wing monoplane at Grantham depot. It is the first of the American airplanes to , was able to be brought home Tues­ day last week, and is able to walk a little. Mr. Ernest Blake and sister, Mrs. Albert Alton, spent a day recently in London to visit ftwith his daughter, Miss Muriel Blake, in the Hospital. Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Blake and daughter, Olive, and Bert Alton,, spent Thursday in London, The community around Kintail held a social evening for Mr. and Mrs. Hibbons and family in Kintail Hall I on Friday night and presented them The W. M.®S. of Hackett’s United Church held their meeting on Thurs­ day afternoon, Feb. 2nd, at the home of Mrs. Elmer Alton. The day was bright and warm and there was a good turn-out of ladies. Mr. and Mrs. Will Hunter and son, Lloyd, spent Monday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. John Mullin. Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Glenwood Campbell, 11th Con., near Zion, on Tuesday, Jan. 31st, a son. We are all pleased to know that j mi juuay uigm. anu presemeu mem Mrs, T. A. Cameron, who was oper-! with a purse of money before their ated on in Wingham Hospital Jan. 16, departure. f “He is wise that is wise self.”—Euripides. * * # “The public pleasures of greater part of mankind are feit.”—Johnson. . to him- far the co-unter- All Winter Merchandise Must Be Cleared Magog Print ......................13c yd. Heavy Ribbed Shirts and Drawers Dodds Knit fyo | Each ............. 9 CWhite Flanelette ................. 9c yd.Men’s Flannelette Pyjamas Each.................. 98C Girls’ Bloomers ................... 15c pr. Children’s Sleepers Elastic Knit and d Fleeced. Size 2-8. Men’s Doeskin 1 Work Shirts Regular $1.35 AQ _Each .................. c/O©Ibex Blankets 70 x sT A QPair .................. 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