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KEMPELEN, Johann Wolfgang Ritter von (1734 – 1804)

1734 – 1804

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1791 CE

#13254

Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst Beschreibung seiner sprechenden Maschine.

Kempelen built the first successful speech synthesizer that produced not only some speech sounds, but also whole words and short sentences. His final version of the machine, which differs slightly from the version sho…