The dialect researcher and phonetician Otto Bremer founded the Phonetic Collection in 1910. He had worked at Halle University since 1888. He became known as a vivid teacher, enthusiastic researcher, and field worker of German dialects and the Frisian language. In 1937, the Phonetic Collection was united with the collections of speech science, continued in 1947 under the name “Institut für Sprechkunde und Phonetische Sammlung” and is now part of the Department of Speech Science and Phonetics. It consists of historical equipment, some of which was already used by Bremer, which was used to record, preserve, and examine spoken language, and the Schallarchiv, a sound archive, which also contains original recordings made by Bremer and now contains more than 12,000 recordings from the various fields of speech science.