Re: VMs: 1st Impressions and baby steps

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Barbara!

> Thanks to a true gentleman (whom I presume if they wanted everyone to
> know would have communicated via the list) sent me a copy of the BBC
> Doco' on the VMS. It was cool to see "listers" "in the flesh" as it
> were. 

I'd love to have a copy myself and see the others in
the flesh, too!  
How could I get one, if you can say?  I'm in the USA,
but they did 
interview me on the phone for the show.

> I hope that a Kober analysis will identify glyphs when they are
> encyphering vowels, consonants, and the rules under when their phonomic
> values change. This isn't decipherment as such, because the CV values
> will be assigned in the abstract. It'll produce plausable CV
> constuctions of the VMS text just as this paragraph's first dozen words
> can be can be represented thus;
> 
> VV CVVC CVC V CVVCV VCVCVCVC CVC VVCVCCVCVV CCVCC CVC CV VC...

	We've used the Sukhotin vowel recognition algorithm,
which Bruce 
mentioned, to identify the vowels in the text.  I can't
find it, 
but I believe Gabriel Landini did some recent work on
this; ask him. 
It would make a big difference for your work!   Of
course, it does 
depend a lot on which transcription system you use! 
Gabriel looked 
at that too, which is why I mentioned it.

Yours truly,
Dennis Stallings
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