Speech Synthesis

• Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine (1769)
• Early attempts at mechanical synthesis: Christian Kratzenstein (1779)
• The Bell Telephone Laboratory's Voder (1930s).
• Vocoder Development (1940s)
• HMM-based speech synthesis systems (HTS) (1980s-Now)
• Festival Speech Synthesis System (1997)
• Advancements in Neural Network-Based TTS (2000s)
• Commerical TTS - Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft (2010s)
• Commercial TTS - Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft (2010s)
• Advancements in AI TTS (2020s)
• DECtalk Speech Synthesizer (1984)

New ideas

• 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)
• FestVox (1987)