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Thank you very much for posting this! Having heard the (much longet) audio many times, it is fascinating to watch the operator ("girl" - lol) control the machine.
Which brings up a question... The audio is about 5 minutes long. Is there any more video (and if so can you please post)? Or is this all that exists?
bmauchly: How about posting a video (or audio) of the Waveboy? That would be cool!
Thanx again!
JoobiZat 1 year ago
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Jteore 1 year ago
1936_
AT&T's Bell Lab
First Electronic Speech Synthesizer. Video is from the 1939 World Fair.
Jteore 1 year ago
That's crazy considering how early it was and how good it sounds. They have trouble properly doing inflections like that today.
metabog 1 year ago
cool! that woman doesn't seem very impressed considering it was a long time ago...
COLONIASCONOCIMIENT0 2 years ago
wow.. impressive for that time..
conradhw 2 years ago
The VODER was amazing. No text or speech input. The operators left hand had continuous control of the formants (analog band pass filters) and the pedals and right hand controlled pitch and volume. You actually had to "play" each syllable.
As "Waveboy" I made a voder plug-in for the Ensoniq ASR-10 in the 90's but never got to see the real one. Cool.
bmauchly 2 years ago
She saw me
fauldzyuk 2 years ago
Ok, Im working on my Master's Thesis in Physical Modeling. I have been reading about the Voice Coder (VODER) and wanted to see it for REAL!! Wow, thanks for posting... Knowing the MATH behind it makes me appreciate what looks SOOOO SIMPLE but is actually very complex... WOW Homer Dudley 1928
philgoodproductions 2 years ago
This actually seems more like an early version of "Text-to-speech" than a vocoder since there's no speaking or singing into it.
AnalogVocoder1 3 years ago 3
Or Text...
CyberAkumaZero 2 years ago
"And she was..." - David Bryne, 1985.
nickelindimer 4 years ago
Invented by the late great Homer W. Simpson Dudley.
AnalogVocoder1 4 years ago 2
she saw me
synthesizerman 4 years ago 3
Thank you for sharing this. Is this an alternative version of VODER, which was demonstrated in 1939 at NY World Fair ?
nsako 4 years ago
Can't say m'self, but it is the one that Bell Labs developed and is pointed-out in "The Bell Labs Song" also found on this site. And if you dig that, checkout the demonstration of the Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer (Laurie Spiegel Playing 1977 Bell Labs Hal Alles Synth). Amazing what about 40 years of tech progress can achieve (Seriously!).
nickelindimer 4 years ago
Thank you for sharing this.
pwhayez 4 years ago 2
Wow - more like this please.
paulchauncy 4 years ago