Historical Review
A View from Dresden onto the History of Speech Communication
- The historic acoustic-phonetic collection
- Von Kempelen’s “Sprachmaschine” and the beginning of speech synthesis
- Voices for toys – First commercial spin-offs in speech synthesis
- Helmholtz Resonators
- Artificial vocal fold models – The investigation of phonation
- Measuring speech respiration
- Early electronic demonstrators for speech synthesis
- Collectibles from the Electronic Era of Speech Technology
Interspeech offers two tours for those who want to see the real exhibits. For more information please refer to the Historic Collection special event.