Education
He studied musicology, phonetics, communication science and psychology at the University of Bonn and finished his doctoral thesis in 1960 at the Department of Phonetics and Communication Research headed by Professor Doctor Werner Meyer-Eppler.
Career
He was senior scientist at Marburg University before he moved to the University of Cologne. From 1969 to 1998 he headed the Departement of Phonetics at the University of Cologne. Among his topics of research are phonetics, phonology, articulatory synthesis, musicology.
Georg Heike has also been intensively involved in composing and performing contemporary music, violin making, and musical acoustics.
Development of a German articulatory speech synthesis system. Dialectology (Stadtkölner Mundart) Aesthetic Phonetics Compare
Heike, G (1998) "Musiksprache und Sprachmusik. Schriften zur Musik 1956-1998" (Pfau, Saarbrücken).