Vocoders generally react quite well to signals that have heavy transients, or to put it another way, tracks that are over-enunciated or over-pronounced. Employing a hard front to a particular word, ...

Looking for a easy-medium degree of dificulty way to create vocoded voices (Ala Stephen Hawking, Radiohead (Fitter Happier), John Digweed(We are Connected)). Looking for highly artificial sound ...

The vocoder was invented by Bell Labs in 1928 to prevent eavesdropping via telephone by scrambling vocal sounds. And its influence is responsible for all the AutoTune vocals dominating popular music ...

Even the much-discussed vocoder seems almost organic, and many songs could command a spontaneous dance party as easily as anything by Klaxons.

Dave Tompkins is an acclaimed music journalist. His new book, How To Wreck A Nice Beach, is a history of the vocoder from its military applications to its musical ones.