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)