TY - JOUR
T1 - Phonetics and speaking machines
T2 - On the mechanical simulation of human speech in the 17th century
AU - Fagyal, Zsuzsanna
PY - 2001/6/13
Y1 - 2001/6/13
N2 - This paper shows that in the 17th century various attempts were made to build fully automatic speaking devices resembling those exhibited in the late 18th-century in France and Germany. Through the analysis of writings by well-known 17th-century scientists, and a document hitherto unknown in the history of phonetics and speech synthesis, an excerpt from La Science universelle (1667[1641]) of the French writer Charles Sorel (1599-1674), it is argued that engineers and scientists of the Baroque period have to be credited with the first model of multilingual text-to-speech synthesis engines using unlimited vocabulary.
AB - This paper shows that in the 17th century various attempts were made to build fully automatic speaking devices resembling those exhibited in the late 18th-century in France and Germany. Through the analysis of writings by well-known 17th-century scientists, and a document hitherto unknown in the history of phonetics and speech synthesis, an excerpt from La Science universelle (1667[1641]) of the French writer Charles Sorel (1599-1674), it is argued that engineers and scientists of the Baroque period have to be credited with the first model of multilingual text-to-speech synthesis engines using unlimited vocabulary.
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U2 - 10.1075/hl.28.3.02fag
DO - 10.1075/hl.28.3.02fag
M3 - Article
C2 - 20034154
AN - SCOPUS:34248732681
VL - 28
SP - 289
EP - 330
JO - Historiographia Linguistica
JF - Historiographia Linguistica
SN - 0302-5160
IS - 3
ER -