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History of Speech and Language Technology

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The documents and websites listed below may prove useful to anyone interested in learning more about the history of speech and language technology.

Janet M. Baker (Saras Institute/Dibner Institute at MIT), "Milestones in Speech Technology - Past and Future!"
Article published in Speech Technology Magazine, September/October 2005.
http://www.speechtechmag.com/issues/10_5/cover/12362-1.html

Eirovamp (Voice Adapted Multipurpose Prepherals) maintains a web site which includes tutorials on the basic principals and history of speech recognition and synthesis. From their Home page, click on "Training" to get to the tutorial menu.
http://www.eurovamp.com/

The web site "comp.speech Frequently Asked Questions" provides a myriad of links to sites dealing with the various aspects of speech technology.
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/

Special Workshop in Maui (SWIM): Lectures by Masters in Speech Processing, January 11-14, 2004, included a series of papers by senior researchers on various aspects of the history of speech technology. A "Program Guide" with summaries of these "Peer Lectures" is available at:
http://dspincars.sdsu.edu/swim/WorkshopGuide.pdf

IEEE History Center has created (with the aid of a Sloane Foundation Grant) a website on Automatic Speech Synthesis & Recognition which includes interviews with seminal contributers (under "Archives") to speech technology an other relevant materials. http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/sloan/ASSR/assr_index.html

The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), founded in 1979, includes on their website an variety of materials on the history of speech technology.
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/speech.html#readon

The Smithsonian Speech Synthesis History Project (SSSHP) provides a collection of tape recordings, technical records and artifacts of speech synthesis technology from 1922 to the mid-1980s.
http://www.mindspring.com/~ssshp/ssshp_cd/ss_home.htm

History of Speech and Language Technology Project, Saras Institute / c/o Janet Baker, 173 Highland Street, West Newton, MA 02465 USA

Email: <Janet_Baker AT email DOT com>