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 ...

With his book How to Wreck a Nice Beach, Dave Tompkins offered a complex and impeccably-researched history of the vocoder, a device that's been used to manipulate voices for high-ranking military ...

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 ...