A few weeks ago, the music writer Dave Tompkins took a podium in one of NYU’s many windowless annexes to promote his upcoming book, How To Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II To Hip-Hop.

Warp, manipulate and harmonize vocals with Evoke's resynthesis engine, then transform the results with its comprehensive effects rack and versatile modulation system ...

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 ...

Homer Dudley, an American engineer and scientist, may have always wanted to make his mark on the technological world but didn ...