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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

KEMPELEN, Johann Wolfgang Ritter von (1734 – 1804)

1734 – 1804

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1791

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Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst Beschreibung seiner sprechenden Maschine.

KEMPELEN, Johann Wolfgang Ritter von (1734 – 1804)

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 sho…