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Holy shit, listen to this: Voder-1939, the worlds first electronic voice synthes
MT:
The original 1939 voder film
This "thing" was actually invented in early 1700, all mechanical but yet synthetic speach.
MichaelWeaser:
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on March 26, 2019, 10:32:29 am ---Note that they first say it using human voice (thus setting in your mind the expectation for what the Vocoder sounds will try to speak), then do some noises with the Vocoder, noises resembling the same words as the ones pronounced before in human voice. It's your own brain what makes it feels like speech. Without hearing it in human voice first, you wont understand much (if at all) from what the Vocoder voice is trying to say. Except maybe for the cow "mooo", which was pretty accurate. ;D
Even so, given the technology of those times, the results were impressive. :-+
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There is new information about how the ladies where trained to play it. After training was basically over, after they have learned what keys made what sounds and what order you had to press the keys to get a certain sound , they practiced a lot right before the demonstration of it at the world's fair. Basically the way the 1 year training worked is the first 6 months was learning what keys made what sounds and putting the sounds together to make a word and saying basic sentences, Then the Last 6 months was just practice. The way the practice went is the ladies could only talk to each other through the Voder. During practice no human could speak at all. So obviously there was no human during practice saying what the voder was going to say right before it was played on the Voder. So I do believe that the Voder was intelligible enough to not need a human saying what was going to be played on the voder.
Another thing , Yes you can easily make your own Voder using a bank of 10 audio filters and here is a video of a somewhat working clone :
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