#50. Snoop Dogg "Sexual Eruption" This has nothing to do with rankings, not to mention taste, but it's just best to just go ahead and get this out of the way. Snoop's voice is enhanced by Auto-Tune, ...

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 ...

Technologies developed for specific uses sometimes unexpectedly jump to another totally unrelated application. The first-ever digital musical instrument, for example, repurposed aerospace ...

What is a Neural Vocoder? The artificial recreation of human speech with a computer or other technology is known as speech synthesis. Speech synthesis, the opposite of voice recognition, is usually ...

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 ...

A scientific tool for those lacking a voice, a means of encrypting voices during World War II, and a way to drop the funk, the vocoder has had many exhale its praises, from General Dwight D.

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 ...

Vocoders can sound very stylised, but Orange IV covers all the bases that you’ll ever likely need, in a neat and stylish plugin. Significant latency makes real-time playing a challenge. Some glitches ...

Abstract: This article presents a neural vocoder named HiNet which reconstructs speech waveforms from acoustic features by predicting amplitude and phase spectra hierarchically. Different from ...

Abstract: The channel vocoder is described. This device achieves bandwidth compression greater than that of the bandpass compressor but less than that of the formant vocoder. To date it has been much ...