Articulatory studies with respect to Hungarian date back to the 1880s. In the 20th century, palato- and linguography, labiography, and X-ray were used in analyses of both typical and atypical speech. These methods were applied for the description of the segment inventory of Hungarian. From the 2000s, the focus shifted to connected speech phenomena due to new tools and methods, e.g. electromagnetic articulography, ultrasound tongue imaging, and electroglottography, which also became available in Hungary. The paper presents an overview of the main trends of articulatory studies on Hungarian in the past and the present.