50 years Institute of Acoustics and Speech Communication – 30 years Conference Electronic Speech Signal Processing – 20 years Historic Acoustic-Phonetic Collection
Authors: Rüdiger Hoffmann
Abstract:
The speech researchers of the TU Dresden are pleased to welcome the participants of the 30th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV). Born in the time of the German re-unification, the conference series developed to a place of exchange between engineers, linguists, phoneticians and other people from academia and practice, who are interested in theory and application of speech technology. After several years, the conference returns to Dresden in 2019, where two further jubilees are coming up at the same year: the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the laboratory, which is now named Institute of Acoustics and Speech Communication, and the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the historic collection of this institute. Ten years ago, when all these numbers were correspondingly lower, the combination of the jubilees was appreciated by a “day of tradition” (September 23/24, 2009) and a special exhibition at the Technical Museum Dresden. The material of these events was collected in Volume 54 of the book series “Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation” [5]. The present paper summarizes some selected parts of this material, which was published in German at that time, and gives a short update regarding the last decade.