Dudley's next project, the Vocoder, differs from its precursor in that it uses the formant generated by the operator's voice and combines it with a carrier signal generated by a machine, in effect ...

In 1928, physicist Homer Dudley began working to electronically compress human voices to send them more efficiently through phone lines. Coincidentally, Dudley’s efforts to improve telephone ...

In just shy of a century since Dudley’s Vocoder repeated its input through its dulcet robotic tones, we’ve progressed to an age in which synthesized voice is nearly indistinguishable from ...

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 first vocoder songs made their debut at the Harvard Tercentenary Celebration in 1936,” Tompkins explained in an e-mail interview. “There’s an entry (for) Homer Dudley and the vocoder ...

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 ...

He did so in conjunction with the Vocoder, which analyzes human-generated speech for encrypted transfer and re-synthesizes it on the other end. [Dudley] spent over 40 years researching speech at ...