The Historic Acoustic-Phonetic Collection of TU Dresden After Finishing the Catalogue

The historic acoustic-phonetic collection (HAPS) of the Technical University Dresden includes more than 1.000 objects from the history of experimental phonetics and speech technology. The rather young collection is a composition of historic devices from mainly three places: the TU Dresden and the former Phonetic Institutes of the universities in Berlin and Hamburg. It was a challenge to explore these inhomogeneous convolutes scientifically. After two decades, this process is now finished for the material exhibits. The paper summarizes the results which are hitherto achieved in cataloguing and describes the remaining tasks with respect to the audiovisual and the archival materials.