A brief history of experimental phonetics in the 18th and 19th centuries
John J. Ohala

The power of communication. apps as human substitutes in science-fiction films
Walter Schmitz

Recent development of the historic acoustic-phonetic collection of the TU Dresden
Rüdiger Hoffmann, Dieter Mehnert

The history of talking heads: the trick and the research
Massimo Pettorino

Kempelen vs. Kratzenstein – researchers on speech synthesis in times of change
Fabian Brackhane

„eine kempelensche sprechmaschine“. new insights in speaking machines in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
Silke Berdux

Kratzenstein’s vowel resonators – reflections on a revival
Christian Korpiun

Voices for toys – first commercial spin-offs in speech synthesis
Rüdiger Hoffmann

The contribution of the kymograph to the description of african languages
Didier Demolin

A 75-year-old Hungarian spontaneous speech database
Mária Gósy

The early Swiss dialect recording collection “LA” (1924–1927): a description and a work plan for its comprehensive edition
Dieter Studer-Joho

The Prague historical collection of tuning forks: a surviving replica of the Koenig tonometre
Pavel Šturm

William Holder – a pioneer of phonetics
Angelika Braun

Experimental phonetics at University College London before World War I
Michael Ashby

The "bonn connection" and its consequences: Paul Menzerath and Werner Meyer-Eppler's reunification of phonetics and phonology and the emergence of a new phonetic speech science based on Shannon’s mathematical theory of communication
Hans G. Tillmann, Jessica Siddins

Hugo pipping – a pioneer phonetician at the University of Helsinki
Reijo Aulanko

A brief history of articulatory-acoustic vowel representation
Coriandre Vilain, Frédéric Berthommier, Louis-Jean Boë

Notes on the development of speaking styles over decades – the case of live football commentaries
Jürgen Trouvain