Thursday, February 6, 2003

Simulacra. Talking Heads: The Early History of Talking Machines is a fascinating website about speech synthesis. And at The History of Speech Synthesis is a nice and long article about "Wolfgang von Kempelen's and the subsequent speaking machines" with old engravings and photos. 9:36:11 PM     |

The Turk. A little page with a few pictures of Wolfgang von Kempelen's Chess Automat is at Chess Graphics; a long list with links is here (most of them are dead though). 9:26:28 PM     |

I'm back. Amazing how many people can fit into one train. 9:16:29 PM     |