The workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research brings together researchers of multiple disciplines such as speech signal processing, experimental phonetics, media archaeology, speech archiving, and historical musicology. The contributions in this collection reflect this diversity that ranges from speech data archives over the history of speech synthesis to research of speech production and speech acoustics in the last two centuries.After the HSCR workshops in Dresden in 2015, an din Helsinki 2017, the location in 2019 is Vienna, a place with a long history in speech communication research, with for example Wolfgang von Kempelen as an important pioneer. The workshop is also a satellite event of the Interspeech 2019 conference in Graz, Austria. The workshop is co-organised by the special interest group on the history of speech communication sciences with an active support of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and is also endorsed by the IPA (International Phonetic Association).
