Kempelen was quoted as referring to the invention as a "mere bagatelle", as he was not pleased with its popularity and would rather continue work on steam engines and machines that replicated human speech.
When he was writing A View from the Bridge, he lived with longshoremen in the hope that he could replicate their speech patterns.
In the late 1950's a field of study emerged that tried to build systems that replicated human abilities like speech, hearing, manual tasks and reasoning.
Their videos, for a start, seem to replicate V's speech patterns – not to mention the staging used for similar transmissions in the book and the film.
They happened to be paired up and, since neither had heard of the other, Blythe started by explaining her distinctive working method, which involves actors replicating the exact speech patterns of interviewees, down to the last "um" and "er".
This pharyngeal portion of the speech aid was replicated in acrylic resin.
The human voice is so full of complexity, from the use of inflections and emotion to the swallowed syllables between quickly spoken words, that replicating the nuances of speech is anything but easy.
Wright said Collins's speech was probably being replicated in clubhouses around baseball, each tinged with hope for the coming season.
In the same study he found that this aspect of the actor's speech did not change much, whether he read in a normal or disguised voice.This study needs to be replicated with many more subjects and types of speech, but the results hint that speech rhythm could be profitably tapped by voice analysts.
Hourly broadcast rates were expensive, and spotty coverage meant speeches had to be replicated by oratorical monks for each local network, according to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, communications at the University of Pennsylvania.
