📚 Citation Classic
"The Sounds of the World's Languages"
Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996)
Citations: 6600+
Encyclopedic survey of consonant articulations across the world's langua...
🔗 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Ladefoged+Maddieson+1996+The+Sounds+of+the+World%27s+Languages
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Your voice may reveal how fast you're ageing. A new speech age gap predicts brain, biological & cognitive decline. #Ageing #BrainHealth #AI #SpeechScience #Dementia
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Gunnar Fant's source-filter theory (1960) explained how speech is produced: a sound source (vocal folds) filtered by the vocal tract shape. This model is still the foundation of speech science today!

📖 Reference: Fant's Acoustic Theory of Speech Production

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"Conversational interfaces: Advances and challenges"
Zue & Glass (2000)
Citations: 720+
Surveyed conversational speech interfaces and the challenges of sp...
🔗 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Zue+Glass+2000+Conversational+interfaces+advances+and+challenges
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In 1779, Christian Kratzenstein built one of the first speech synthesizers - a set of resonating tubes that could produce vowel sounds when air was blown through them.

🔗 More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#History

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"Word association norms mutual information and lexicography"
Church & Hanks (1990)
Citations: 7600+
Popularized mutual information for finding...
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During WWII, engineers at Bell Labs developed the sound spectrograph to analyze encrypted speech. After the war, it became the speech scientist's most important tool for visualizing sound.

🎙️ Learn more: antiqueradio.org/soundspec.htm

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"Robust text-independent speaker identification using Gaussian mixture speaker models"
Reynolds & Rose (1995)
Citations: 7600+
GMM-based...
🔗 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Reynolds+Rose+1995+Robust+text-independent+speaker+identification+Gaussian+mixture
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CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Rion Iwasaki who successfully defended his dissertation! Rion examined tongue movement during so-called devoiced high vowels in Tokyo Japanese. The study proves devoiced /i/ and /u/ are contrastive in both acoustic and articulatory domains.

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In the 1950s, researchers discovered that vowels could be characterized by their formant frequencies https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/formant.html.

📚 Key paper: Potter et al. (1947) 'Visible Speech'

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📚 Citation Classic
"WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio"
van den Oord et al (2016)
Citations: 7900+
WaveNet generated raw audio sample-by-sample — a leap for speech synthesis quality.
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03499
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In 1939, Bell Labs unveiled the Voder at the New York World's Fair - the first electronic speech synthesizer operated by a human using a keyboard and foot pedals. Audiences were amazed to hear a machine 'speak'!

🎪 See it in action: youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0

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📚 Citation Classic
"Coarticulation is largely planned"
Whalen (1990)
Citations: 830+
Evidence that coarticulation is planned ahead — not just mechanical spillover.
🔗 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Whalen+1990+Coarticulation+is+largely+planned
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