The device famous for making human voices sound robotic did not originate in the recording studio. As music journalist Dave Tompkins writes in How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War ...

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The vocoder—code name Special Customer, the Green Hornet, Project X-61753, X-Ray, and SIGSALY—started distorting human speech in earnest during World War II, in response to the excellence of ...

The 50 Greatest Vocoder Songs Not all robotic vocals are created equal! Our expert sets the record straight on which vocoder records are best.

A vocoder consists of several filter bands, tuned across the audio spectrum, that respond to a set of envelope followers corresponding to their specific frequency ranges.

The vocoder caught the ear of Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, Roger Troutman, Michael Jonzun, and more, making this futuristic sound the embodiment of funk.

I once dreamt that a fireplace chanted the "Nothing" vocoder to me in a cabin with antler chandeliers in Brevard, NC (where, when awake at age 8, I played my first game of Telephone.) The ...

The vocoder—part military technology, part musical instrument—has had quite a history. In our new Object of Interest video, we explore the vocoder in settings ranging from the Second World War ...

The vocoder was invented by Bell Labs in 1928 to prevent eavesdropping via telephone by scrambling vocal sounds. And its influence is responsible for all the AutoTune vocals dominating popular music ...

LONDON Digital Voice Systems Inc. (DVSI) has introduced a new multi-channel vocoder chip. The AMBE-3003 vocoder chip offers three separate encoder/decoder operations to provide the capability of up to ...

The AMBE-3003 Vocoder Chip offers three separate encoder/decoder operations to enable up to three full-duplex channels. With 62 built-in voice/FEC rates, designers can easily configure the chip to ...

The True Story Of A Vocoder Love Ballad That's my best stab at the lyrics. (I presume there's no urtext form of this anywhere, but someone tell Casey to holler at me if he sees mistakes.) ...