KEMPELEN, Johann Wolfgang Ritter von
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Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst Beschreibung seiner sprechenden Maschine.Vienna: J. B. Degen, 1791.Kempelen built the first successful speech synthesizer that produced not only some speech sounds, but also whole words and short sentences. His final version of the machine, which differs slightly from the version shown in the book, is preserved in the Deutsches Museum Munich, in the department of musical instruments. Digital facsimile from deutschestextarchiv.de at this link. Degen issued an edition of Kempelen's book in French also in 1791. Digital facsimile of the French edition from Google Books at this link. Subjects: Speech, Anatomy and Physiology of › Speech Synthesis |