Vocoder’s unlikely arc: from Bell Labs to the soundtrack of modern music
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From a Bell Labs device built to send voices over copper wires, the vocoder became a wartime secret-communications tool and then a global music phenomenon, explored in Version History with Chromeo and friends, and contrasted with Auto-Tune and the Talkbox.
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