Speech Synthesis

• Early attempts at mechanical synthesis: Christian Kratzenstein (1779)
• The Bell Telephone Laboratory's Voder (1930s).
• Vocoder Development (1940s)
• Hidden Markov Models in Speech Synthesis (1980s-Now) Application of Hidden Markov Models in Speech Synthesis： A Breakthrough in Text-to-Speech Systems.
• Festival Speech Synthesis System (1997)
• Advancements in Neural Network-Based TTS (2000s)
• Commerical TTS - Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft (2010s)
• Advancements in AI TTS (2020s)

New ideas

• Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine (1769) - see overlap above?

• Wheatstone's "Speaking Machine" (1824)
• The Parametric Artificial Talker (1952)
• IBM's "Audrey" (1956)
• Bell Labs' "Daisy Bell" (1968)
• Linear Predictive Coding (1970s)
• Carnegie Mellon's FestVox Project (1984)
• DECtalk Speech Synthesizer (1984)
• FestVox (1987)