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From Kratzenstein to the Soviet Vocoder: Some Results of a Historic Research Project in Speech Technology

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This paper demonstrates by means of an example, how historic collections of universities can be utilized in modern research and teaching. The project refers to the Historic Acoustic-phonetic Collection (HAPS) of the TU Dresden. Two “guiding fossils” from the history of speech technology are selected to present a selection of results.

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Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the project “Sprechmaschine”, FKZ 01UQ1601A.

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    Rüdiger Hoffmann, Peter Birkholz, Falk Gabriel & Rainer Jäckel

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Hoffmann, R., Birkholz, P., Gabriel, F., Jäckel, R. (2018). From Kratzenstein to the Soviet Vocoder: Some Results of a Historic Research Project in Speech Technology. In: Karpov, A., Jokisch, O., Potapova, R. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11096. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99579-3_23

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