Phonetics and speaking machines
On the mechanical simulation of human speech in the 17th century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3955349 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zsuzsanna Fagyal (0000-0002-9712-9198, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 289-330 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historiographia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/hl.28.3.02fag |
| PMID | 20034154 |
| OpenAlex | W1995924957 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
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
Art · Baroque · History of linguistics · Linguistics · Literature · Phonetics · Vocabulary · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · History · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |