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 ...
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.
The vocoder—part military technology, part musical instrument—has had quite a history. In our new Object of Interest video, we explore the vocoder in settings ranging from the Second World War to ...
Before T-Pain was using Auto-Tune to buy girls drinks, Franklin D. Roosevelt was using the vocoder to win World War II. In “How to Wreck a Nice Beach,” music critic Dave Tompkins (The Wire, Vibe) ...
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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 ...
A half-duplex RALCWI (Robust Advanced Low Complexity Waveform Interpolation) vocoder, the CMX618 suits both wireless and wireline voice applications such as voice scramblers, alarm systems, military ...
The AMBE-3003 Vocoder Chip offers three separate encoder/decoder operations to enable up to three full-duplex channels. With 62 built-in voice/FEC rates, designers can easily configure the chip to ...
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