There are a number of recent replicas of Wolfgang von Kempelen’s speaking machine. Although all of them are explicitly based on Kempelen’s own description nearly none of them are identical in construction and sound. In this paper we want to illustrate some of these differences and their reasons for five replicas built by ourselves.
Cite as: Brackhane, F., Gósy, M. (2017) Kempelen's speaking machine: experiences with replicas. Proc. Second International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR 2017), 25-34, doi: 10.21437/HSCR.2017-3
@inproceedings{brackhane17b_hscr,
author={Fabian Brackhane and Mária Gósy},
title={{Kempelen's speaking machine: experiences with replicas}},
year=2017,
booktitle={Proc. Second International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR 2017)},
pages={25--34},
doi={10.21437/HSCR.2017-3}
}