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 ...

Sometimes a melody just captures your ear in a way that renders you powerless to resist. I've written before about "For You," the R&B-ish ballad recorded by both Stefon Harris and Robert Glasper last ...

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 ...

A neural vocoder is a neural network designed to generate speech waveforms given acoustic features — often used as a backbone module for speech recognition tasks such as text-to-speech (TTS), ...

When Arturia announced the MicroFreak in January of 2019 I said “there's nothing stopping Arturia from adding more oscillators down the road through firmware updates.” And the company has not ...

While the process of speech production is subject to a variety of physical effects, a relatively simple model can be used to explain it (see Wikipedia article). Components of human speech can be ...

In the rapidly developing field of audio synthesis, Nvidia has recently introduced BigVGAN v2. This neural vocoder breaks previous records for audio creation speed, quality, and adaptability by ...

The vocoder—the musical instrument that gave Kraftwerk its robotic sound—began as an early telecommunications device and a top-secret military encoding machine. sort of alienated from your body. It ...

Vocoder is a software package for dictation and voice control, in a similar category of software as Dragon, Dragonfly, Caster, Talon, and Serenade. The user is meant to install it using pip, poetry, ...

A scientific tool for those lacking a voice, a means for encrypting voices during WWII and a way to drop the funk, the vocoder has had many exhale its praises. Here are five essential vocoder tracks.

Softube has introduced Vocoder, a new plugin that delivers exactly what its name implies. Offering the look and feel of a vintage vocoder, this features a six-voice carrier synth with four selectable ...