One Of The First Vocoder Machine

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

This is from the film ¨Gizmo¨. Great movie of old inventions, some good, but mostly bad.

[keykeeperwingo]

I WANT ONE!!!!!!!

[JohnNormic]

@keykeeperwingo

I have one ;-)

[keykeeperwingo]

@JohnNormic you are the luckiest person in the world

[helms7k]

fucking moron autotune IS a vocoder

[Subalpine602]

@helms7k not quite, in fact, very wrong...

[VoiceEncoder]

@helms7k Correct, fucking asshole idiot...I do know this! But Auto-Tune is a phase vocoder. The type that I and most others love is a band or channel vocoder because it's divided-up by the number of bands/channels it has.

[ewanmerrett]

SAY WHAAAAAAAA!!!!!?

[D3V0LUTI0N]

need beats get at the God, D.3.V.

[Owen7Miller]

she shur mee

[Owen7Miller]

shesharmee

[garyc2]

this is kinna freaky

alot of vocoders alter the human voice but this produces the voice on it's own.

[kidtronic]

Those are speed machines for court recorders to do shorthand dictation being used as keyboards. One is modified on the green cover of Rheed Gzahals book on audio hacking and circuit bending.

[LIGHTRONIX]

rofl copter

[Wasserbutz]

That's not a vocoder but a speech synthesizer.

[modgemtb]

@Wasserbutz thats what a vocoder is

[JoobiZat]

Thank you very much for posting this! Having heard the 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?

Thanx again!

[garagecrap]

wow what a great sound!!!!!!!!!!

[stormsirens2]

This was from 1939 and it was called the VODER

[SpaceIntruderDetecto]

This was the Voder not the first Vocoder. This was developed by Bell Telephone in the hopes of saving bandwidth on analog phone lines of the day. This was a popular exhibit at the 1939 Worlds Fair. The principles behind the voder did aid in the eventual development of the vocoder . Read "How to Wreck a Nice Beach" for the full story

[wado1942]

More like a voice synth, not a vocoder. You actually speak into a vocoder which uses your voice to control filter banks on a synth. This is all hand controlled.

[MrWorf510]

That was so WOW!!!

[mcflyfarm]

You will be like uzzzzzzzzzzz!

[BubblegumShallow]

English electronic duo Multiplex used samples from this to great effect on their debut album 'The Monitors'.A highly recommended album for any fans of Electronic music (similar to Kraftwerk and even Aphex Twin at times).the track fittingly is entitled 'She Saw Me'.

[rgelen]

This particular device was called the "Vodeur" if I remember correctly.

[InsaneFameNYC]

F4000

[claytond]

Holycrap ! That's the "speaking typewriter" Kraftwerk were talkin' about in their early records !

[piercem26]

@claytond yeah!

[adrifromhh]

this is sick! Can it also say other things?

[MacJARedd]

Yes. Ofourse.

[flashchrome]

Talk about the kraftwerk effekt. Amazing. Thanks for sharing...

[typeanoise]

This was invented by Homer Dudley! Back in 1928. In 1928, Dudley began experimenting with electromechanical devices to produce analogues of human speech. This led to the patent for the "Vocoder" (a portmanteau of "voice" and "encoder"), a method of reproducing speech through electronic means, and allowing it to be transmitted over distances, as through telephone lines.

[JLDoggard]

So, it's this we have to thank for Cher's later career. Thank you so fucking much.

[davidmondrup]

Uhmm ... no. The "Cher effect" is Antares Autotune. Not Vocoder.

[fredturd]

The autotune is a phase vocoder.

[wado1942]

@davidmondrup

Interesting. I read an interview with her producer where he went into great detail about which vocoder he used and how difficult it was to program it to sound like her but electronic.

[Jannto]

@davidmondrup Technically, it still is a vocoder.

[sneaksta303]

that's the autotune plug-in ya moron. Ooh lookit me, name calling on you-tube!

[sneaksta303]

shit I didn't see you other guyz my bad

[moveste]

LOL.

Yeah, I guess autotune historically is another approach to basically some of the same needs.

In the seventies we did indeed use vocoders to put the correct frequencies on the human voice when needed ( = often ).

I don't remember the name, but one brand of vocoders was especially good for retaining the humanness of the voice.

There was some type of auto tuning available as well, but I've never been close to one of those.

[wado1942]

@moveste

Yeah, they kept that stuff pretty secretive. They also use things like Synclaviers for the purpose in the late 70s/early 80s.

Then there's the "Data Rate Changer" which could raise/lower the pitch of a recording in the analogue domain in the 60s but you had to take the recording down an extra generation. Amazing stuff.

[ptrtbo]

This is a Vo-Der (contraction: Voice Demonstrator)

It is an early demo on how the human voice could be easily "composed" via a combination of voiced/unvoiced distortions (created by oral cavities) of a fundamental tone (as is by voice folrs).

It is the basis of any actual mobile telephone reconstructs the counterpart's speech.

Vice versa, a Vo-Coder is analysing your speech as a spectral form, and slowly "symbolizes" into a byte-stream (anyway some faster than the girl in the video is "typing"!)

[YouXKneekXIT]

SODO Voice/ Sodexho? haha see also horn meets ear and shock therapy vodafontague hahaha

[phreaf]

She saw me more by the sea shore, sure?

It later pressed charges on her for stalking.

[ALXXMaXX]

It's called the Voder.

[pladers]

awesome

[Brainiac83]

and thats the only thing the machine ca say..Otherwise he wouldntev asked the questions in that order to give the same anwser over and over... Lets see the machine say..I ate a cookie and i liked it.

[ilikepez]

Lets see the machine say..shut the fuck up

[joshingledew]

i would easy sample this it is gold :) ahahahaa :P

[murcuryvapor]

Where is this from?

[amigaknight]

im samplin this shit!!! :D

[thinkbubblefilms]

In 1969, electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack built one of the first truly musical vocoders. He named it 'Farad' after 1800's English chemist / physicist Michael Faraday and unlike it's successors and predicesors, 'Farad' was programmed by touch and proximity relays. This invention was first used on Bruce Haack's album The Electronic Record for Children (1969), which was a DIY home pressing found mostly in libraries and elementary schools.

[jimdetroit]

where can i buy one?

[timpedersen]

you can probably find one in the 1940's for sale

[SamTheToyRobot]

This is vintage Electronica!

lol.

Man the good ol' days were awesome.

[PhobiaGuy]

GOLD!!!

[comdragon90]

this is so cool. She saw me.

[CassetteMaster]

Very neat! Didn't know stuff like that existed back then! One sound for the S, one for the voice tone with keys for different frequencies... Very impressive...

[CoolDudeClem]

What an amazing synthesizer for it's time. I'd never have thought this kind of thing was possible back then. Sounds better than the YouTube audio preview!

[vrs1977]

is there any more of this video?

[1O74]

this thing is called "the voder" and it's from 1939. quite a while before raymond scott was messing about with his sequencers.

i heard this clip a while ago but never saw any images, amazing... thanks tons for posting this...

[kantarellkvinnan]

yeah, Scott, did a lot inspired by this, but hten again, i´m one of those persons who think that Bruce Haack was the one who used it first as an "all on musician" matter...

[slaphead99uk]

That's fantastic on so many levels- intelligible reproduction of human voice with just two degrees of freedom; expert handling of device; coming from the depths of time too. Love it.

[evileaub]

I love how he asks different questions for the same answer.

[johngalantini]

Daft Punk; eat your hearts out baby boys!

[shamraig]

WOW

[OohEehOohAhAh]

That was amazing! Not really a vocoder (which was originally an encryption/data compression device - google it to find out more - and which by definition uses a voice as an input rather than the hand controls seen here), but it obviously uses a bank of filters to shape a carrier signal in the same way. I'd be interested to see more - where's this from?

[bricology]

This is fascinating! Where did you find this? Is it Raymond Scott?

[elefou]

He does look like Raymond to me.. ;)