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Speaking Machine - 会说话的机器 - 토킹 머신 - Replica Museum Munich 1800

Speech synthesis
Speaking Machine by Wolfgang von Kempelen 1791
from the Book:
Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst der Beschreibung seiner sprechenden Maschine
Mechanism of human speech together with a description of its speaking machine

https://books.google.at/books?id=o_Y4zwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=thumbnail&q&f=false

In the German Museum in Munich there is a model of a speaking machine built according to the specifications of Wolfgang von Kempelen, which is dated ~1800

Inv. no. 6596

Whether Kempelen himself built this variant is still under discussion

One can recognize many changes and improvements in this variant machine in contrast to the drawing of the speaking machine published by Kempelen in the book of 1791.