Kratzenstein's vowel resonators - reflections on a revival
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They are usually accompanied by terse explanations of the following kind: ‘In 1781, Christian Kratzenstein, a German scientist, was awarded a prize at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts for his presentation of five resonators that served to produce the five vowels a, e, i, o and u. Shortly afterwards, Wolfgang von Kempelen constructed a speech machine which was able to produce syllables.’ This is often followed by the mention of Charles Wheatstone, who reportedly experimented with a reproduction of Kempelen’s machine in the first half of the 19th century. These are, in short, the few facts that are commonly disseminated about Kratzenstein and his vowel resonators.
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