Links
Here are a few links related to historical aspects of the speech communication sciences:
- "From Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication" (Conference at MIT in 2004)
- Panel discussion on the history of speech technology at the Interspeech in Lisbon 2005
- History of Speech and Language Technology Project (Saras Institute, Janet Baker)
- A brief historical introduction to speech synthesis (Robert Manell, Maquarie)
- History and development of speech synthesis (Sami Lemmetty, Helsinki)
- A brief history of speech synthesis at IPO (Sieb Noteboom)
- IEEE global history network - oral histories: Manfred Schroeder
- Max Planck Institute of the History of Science (Berlin)
- First sounds - earliest sound recordings
- The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas
- Wolfgang von Kempelen on the web (Hartmut Traunmüller)
- Wolfgang von Kempelen's speaking machine - Demonstration of a repelica (Fabian Brackhane)
- Dennis Klatt's history of speech synthesis
- Klatt's last tapes - A history of speech synthesisers (BBC4 radio documentary)