A View from Dresden onto the History of Speech Communication (Part 1)
Part 1: The historic acoustic-phonetic collection
Information Technology at the TU Dresden goes back to Heinrich Barkhausen (1881–1956), the “father of the electron valve“, who taught from 1911 to 1953. Speech research in a narrower sense started with the development of a vocoder in the 1950s. Walter Tscheschner (1927–2004) performed his extensive investigations on the speech signal using components of the vocoder. In 1969, a scientific unit for Communication and Measurement was founded in Dresden.
