In 1779, Christian Kratzenstein built one of the first speech synthesizers - a set of resonating tubes that could produce vowel sounds when air was blown through them.
🔗 More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#History
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In 1976, Harry McGurk discovered that what we SEE affects what we HEAR. When watching someone say 'ga' while hearing 'ba', most people perceive 'da'. Vision and hearing integrate automatically!
🎥 Watch it: youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0
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📚 Citation Classic
"Preliminaries to Speech Analysis"
Jakobson Fant & Halle (1951)
Citations: 8500+
Defined the distinctive feature syst...
🔗 scholar.google.com/scholar
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During WWII, engineers at Bell Labs developed the sound spectrograph to analyze encrypted speech. After the war, it became the speech scientist's most important tool for visualizing sound.
🎙️ Learn more: antiqueradio.org/soundspec.htm
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📚 Citation Classic
"Linear prediction: A tutorial review."
Makhoul (2005)
Citations: 5951+
An exposition of linear prediction in the analysis of discrete signals
🔗 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1451722
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Ganong (1980) showed lexical knowledge influences phoneme perception - ambiguous sounds between /d/ and /t/ are heard as 'dash' not 'tash' because 'tash' isn't a word. Context shapes what we hear!
📝 Top-down effects in perception
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📚 Citation Classic
"Categorical perception: real or myth? Or a bad question."
Liberman et al; McMurray (1957;2022)
Citations: 2641;113+
CP is an empirical phenomenon and a theoret...
🔗 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9803395
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Colin Cherry (1953) described how we can focus on one conversation in a noisy room full of people talking. This launched decades of research into selective attention and speech perception.
🎧 Cherry (1953) - foundational auditory perception study
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📚 Citation Classic
"Articulatory Phonology"
Browman & Goldstein (1992)
Citations: 2993+
Dynamic gestural approach. Paradigm shift from static to c...
🔗 sail.usc.edu/~lgoldste/General_Phonet...
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In 1939, Bell Labs unveiled the Voder at the New York World's Fair - the first electronic speech synthesizer operated by a human using a keyboard and foot pedals. Audiences were amazed to hear a machine 'speak'!
🎪 See it in action: youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0
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📚 Citation Classic
"The Motor Theory of Speech Perception"
Liberman et al (1967)
Citations: 5765+
Proposed perception uses motor simulation. Hugely influentia...
🔗 haskinslabs.org/sites/default/files/file...
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📚 Citation Classic
"Phonetic and phonological representation of stop consonant voicing"
Patricia Keating (1984)
Citations: 859+
Structured view of [voice] feature to phonetic implement...
🔗 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/413642.pdf
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In the 1930s, Stevens and Volkmann showed that our perception of pitch isn't linear - the mel scale was born! This perceptual scale is now fundamental to speech processing and voice technology.
🎵 Foundation of modern speech recognition systems
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In the 1950s, researchers discovered that vowels could be characterized by their formant frequencies https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/formant.html
📚 Key paper: Potter et al. (1947) 'Visible Speech'
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📚 Citation Classic
"The cortical organization of speech processing"
Hickok & Poeppel (2007)
Citations: 6,971+
Dual processing streams model for speech in the brain.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn2113
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In 1961, physicist John Kelly programmed an IBM 704 to sing 'Daisy Bell' - the first song ever sung by a computer. This inspired HAL 9000's song in 2001: A Space Odyssey!
🎵 Historic: youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk
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In 1886, the International Phonetic Association created the IPA - a standardized system to transcribe sounds of any language. Universal alphabet for linguists!
🌍 internationalphoneticassociation.org
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The Peterson & Barney (1952) study measured formant frequencies from 76 speakers pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article-pdf/24/...
📊 Original study: Peterson & Barney JASA 1952
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📚 Citation Classic
"A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models"
L.R Rabiner & B.H. Juang (2003)
Citations: 7,556+
Statistical framework t...
🔗 www.academia.edu/download/31037917/Rabine...
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📚 Citation Classic
"Acoustic Theory of Speech Production"
Gunnar Fant (1971)
Citations: 7,825+
Foundation for modern speech production. Source-filter mo...
🔗 scholar.google.com/scholar
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📚 Citation Classic
"Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling"
Hinton et al. (2012)
Citations: 15,024+
Deep learning sparked the neural network revolution in speech tech.
🔗 ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/79/6296521/06296526...
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📚 Citation Classic
"A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Claude Shannon (1948)
Citations: 118,152+
Information theory foundation for all digital communication incl...
🔗 ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/6731005/6773023/067...
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📚 Citation Classic
"On linguistic aspects of translation"
1959 (11012)
Citations: translator of what messages? betrayer of what values?+
www.academia.edu/download/46861872/Jakobs...
🔗 NA
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In the 1930s, Stevens and Volkmann showed that our perception of pitch isn't linear - the mel scale was born! This perceptual scale is now fundamental to speech processing and voice technology.
🎵 Foundation of modern speech recognition systems
#SpeechScience #Perception
Researchers discovered that we don't produce speech sounds in isolation - each sound is influenced by neighboring sounds. This 'coarticulation' makes speech production efficient but recognition challenging!
🔬 Key insight for speech perception research
#SpeechScience #Production
Researchers discovered that we don't produce speech sounds in isolation - each sound is influenced by neighboring sounds. This 'coarticulation' makes speech production efficient but recognition challenging!
🔬 Key insight for speech perception research
#SpeechScience #Production
Question for #neuroscience, #neuroskyence, #psychology #Linguistics, #SpeechScience, #CommunicationScience, #ChildLanguage researchers in #academicSky doing auditory stimulus presentation.
Do you have speakers you recommend for free-field auditory presentation? Extra points if you can say why!
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EU-funded #CELIAProject – Linguistics and Speech Technology
Eligibility: PhD in related discipline
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