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 ...

Stephen Hawking was perhaps the most famous user of "vocoder" speech synthesis hardware, but he was not alone. People all over the world are unable to speak on their own, but science may be ...

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 ...

Vocoders just got a serious upgrade. A new speech synthesiser can translate mouth movements directly into intelligible speech, completely bypassing a person’s voicebox. Although the synthesiser might ...

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 ...

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