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.

We've been looking into classic vocal effects this week on MusicRadar, showing you how to work with vocoders and talkboxes to create processed electronic vocals à la Kraftwerk and Herbie Hancock. If ...

Next up in our guide to making music with the internet's most capable freeware, we decode the mysteries of the vocoder When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...

The phase vocoder is an effective tool for the manipulation of the duration or the pitch of a sound file. Each of these transformations may be made independent of one another meaning pitch may be ...