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== Historical Context ==
== Historical Context ==


Before Voder, several significant milestones have marked progress in recreating human speech artificially. One early attempt was Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen's Speaking Machine from the late 18th century. This machine used bellows and reeds to simulate limited vowel and consonant sounds, showing the potential for creating artificial speech.
Before Voder, several significant milestones have marked progress in recreating human speech artificially. One early attempt was Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen's [[Mechanical synthesis#Wolfgang von Kempelen, 1791: Acoustic-Mechanical Speech Machine|Speaking Machine]] from the late 18th century. This machine used bellows and reeds to simulate limited vowel and consonant sounds, showing the potential for creating artificial speech.


Charles Wheatstone built upon Kempelen's work with his Speaking Machine in the early 19th century. By incorporating a vibrating reed, Wheatstone's machine could produce a wider range of sounds compared to previous attempts, resulting in more accurate and recognizable speech sounds.
Charles Wheatstone built upon Kempelen's work with his Speaking Machine in the early 19th century. By incorporating a vibrating reed, [[Mechanical synthesis#Charles Wheatstone, 1800s: upgraded version of von Kempelen's machine|Wheatstone's machine]] could produce a wider range of sounds compared to previous attempts, resulting in more accurate and recognizable speech sounds.


The next step was Alexander Graham Bell's Photophone, introduced in the late 19th century. It was an innovative invention that transmitted sound using light beams. Although not primarily intended for speech synthesis, this device revolutionized telecommunications by demonstrating wireless sound transmission over long distances.
The next step was Alexander Graham Bell's Photophone, introduced in the late 19th century. It was an innovative invention that transmitted sound using light beams. Although not primarily intended for speech synthesis, this device revolutionized telecommunications by demonstrating wireless sound transmission over long distances.

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Introduction

The Voder, short for "Voice Operation DEmonstratoR," stands as a pioneering achievement in the realm of speech synthesis technology. Conceived and developed by Homer Dudley in the 1930s at Bell Labs, the Voder was a groundbreaking invention that laid the conceptual groundwork for subsequent advancements in the speech synthesis field and paved the way for the sophisticated TTS technologies we rely upon today.

Designed similarly to an organ, a musical instrument with pedals and keys, Voder demanded an operator to manipulate its components effectively: through this manipulation, the machine could approximate speech-like sounds, portraying a semblance of human communication.

Historical Context

Before Voder, several significant milestones have marked progress in recreating human speech artificially. One early attempt was Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen's Speaking Machine from the late 18th century. This machine used bellows and reeds to simulate limited vowel and consonant sounds, showing the potential for creating artificial speech.

Charles Wheatstone built upon Kempelen's work with his Speaking Machine in the early 19th century. By incorporating a vibrating reed, Wheatstone's machine could produce a wider range of sounds compared to previous attempts, resulting in more accurate and recognizable speech sounds.

The next step was Alexander Graham Bell's Photophone, introduced in the late 19th century. It was an innovative invention that transmitted sound using light beams. Although not primarily intended for speech synthesis, this device revolutionized telecommunications by demonstrating wireless sound transmission over long distances.

Working Mechanism

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Key Innovations

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Impact

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Future research

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References

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  1. Feng, S., Kudina, O., Halpern, B. M., & Scharenborg, O. (2021). Quantifying Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition (arXiv:2103.15122). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15122
  2. Glantz, Richard "SHOEBOX: a personal file handling system for textual data." In Proceedings of the November 17-19, 1970, Fall Joint Computer Conference 1970. 535-545. [1]

Team Members

  • Igor Marchenko
  • Wangyiyao Zhou
  • Yaling Deng
  • Dongwen Zhu
  • Sherry Yeh