That voice heard in Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" and the sound of Peter Frampton's guitar speaking like a human. Both are lumped together as "robot voices," but when you listen to them side-by-side, they ...

If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've probably heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. That's thanks to the vocoder, a device invented by Bell Labs, the research ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Originally developed for telecommunications and military applications in the 1930s, the vocoder, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. tal vocoder plugin Something we've yet to cover in this series of tutorials is vocoding, and a good-quality (free) vocoding ...

From Stevie Wonder and Queen to Vangelis and Dua Lipa, we bring you a short musical history of this influential vocoder When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

When I first listened to YMO, there was a sound that intrigued me just as much as the synthesizer tones. It is the voice saying "TOKIO!" that plays at the beginning of "Technopolis."It sounded like a ...

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 German ...

Among the group’s top five vocoder tracks are a Belgian disco stomp from the 70s, Anderson’s O Superman, Kraftwerk’s Robots, and a slice of fine Italodisco This Belgian disco number is a fine example ...

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Jordan grew up traveling the country as the son of theater technical directors and speech instructors. His exposure to the performing arts early on helped foster his ...

Aimed at being quick and fun to use, WINNETKA plays a single sound or layers two timbres, with a vocoder for shaping input ...