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 ...

Stop Smiling Books/ Melville House; 335 pp. The room contains two turntables and a microphone. Hulking consoles line the walls, covered in dials and gauges and blinking lights, like the bridge of ...

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 ...

DAVE TOMPKINS’ new book is titled How to Wreck a Nice Beach, but it has nothing to do with the BP oil spill, or any coast at all. Instead, the phrase he chose for his book title is how the words “how ...

AT the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco great interest was shown in the speech synthesizer shown in the Bell System exhibits. In the December number of the Bell Laboratories Record, H.

This week on Culturetopia: Keith Richards and Mick Jagger reflect on their raw rock and roll classic 'Exile on Main Street;' actors with disabilities on the TV series 'Glee;' the history of the ...

Flexible filter bank routing. The best software vocoder we've heard! Loads of useful, creative parameters. Handy built-in synth. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers ...

There´s plenty to like about this unconventional and unexpected addition to the Eiosis product range. That said, it´s neither essential nor for the faint-hearted. Very high CPU usage. Doesn’t accept ...

The phase vocoder is an effective tool for the manipulation of the duration or the pitch of a sound file. Each of these transformations may be made independent of one another meaning pitch may be ...