#VODER

[fuzzkaizer]

Homer Dudley - The Voder

“ The Voder was first unveiled in 1939 at the New York World Fair (where it was demonstrated at hourly intervals) and later in 1940 in San Francisco. There were twenty trained operators known as the ‘girls’ who handled the machine much like a musical instrument such as a piano or an organ, but they managed to successfully produce human speech during the demonstrations. ... This was done by manipulating fourteen keys with the fingers, a bar with the left wrist and a foot pedal with the right foot. “

cred: 120years.net/the-voder-vocoderhomer-dudleyusa1940

[hadalpelagiczone]

Alright I'm alive. look at my insane doodles boy

❗❗blood warning under the cut

Got inspired by lepus music 4 this one :]

[anobjectshowguy]

My favorite thing right now has to be speech synthesizers!

If I don’t talk about them I’m going to EXPLODE, sorry to anyone who follows me for this long post but…

I’ve loved speech synthesis for a really long time! I think they’re really cool for a machine that was first invented in 1939 (That’s 84 years ago).

A bunch of companies made them back in the day, but the two shown here are the DECtalk Express (1994) and the Dolphin Apollo 2 (I couldn’t find when it was made, the copyright is 1998).

You may know speech synthesis like Siri or Google, but the first ever speech synthesizers made and recorded was VODER who was detected by Homer Dudley at Bell Labs in 1939. There were many other speech synthesizers after VODER.

IBM 704 7094, for example, was a speech synthesizer known for their performance of Daisy Bell (1961), they were the first ever man-made computer to sing!

(Video by Computer History Archives Project)

Another example would be tsi s14001A, also known as Otto.

(Video by Plogue Art et Technologie, Inc)

Anyways, here are some videos of the more modern speech synthesizers:

Video by Guido Lehwalder on YouTube

Video by Living Computers: Museum + Labs on YouTube

My two favorite video of these amazing machines, however, is by Per Kristian Risvik. This one has not the Intex Talker (not sure of the model) and the DECtakl Express.

And this one with the Dolphin Apollo 2 and DECtalk Express

[bloopychips]

Old Chipspeech art.

[ultimateunidino]

V is for Voder

V1 may have been the first with no piolet and ran on blood, but they where not the first one made by the company.

Transcript

V1: what?

Of course I'm the first V-model!

Why would I be called V1 if not?

(Voder stands ominously behind them)

[magpiecrust]

The Voder (1939), world's first electronic speech synthesizer

[cidandy]

hi

[excessively-english-jd]

Fuckit. Have my Hazbin OC. This is Voder.

Died in the mid-90s, when CDs were at their peak as home media for music. Works for VoxTech in the sound department. While he still retains his 'retro' 90s look, he's perfectly upgraded, and very versatile - he can pick up radio transmissions, play cassette and CD, and now has all-new BlueTooth connectivity. His screen is very limited in its display (an LCD display only capable of monochrome blue), and his mouth is a projection.

I mostly came up with him while trying to think of other technologies that could be capitalised on in Hell - if Vox is TV, Velvette is social media, and Alastor is radio, then what other possibilities would there be? My first thoughts were CD and DVD - Voder is intended to be one of this pair, but I'm still trying to figure out a design for the DVD guy. So, you just get him - but tbh, I think he's going to be my favourite anyway lmao.

[deathchipz]

hey chip nation. pspspspspspspspsssssss [voder jink belongs to @hebezunet]

[schibborasso]

THE V O D E R 1940

[incorrectchipspeech]

dandy: we need to get through this locked door. cider, give me your credit card. cider: here. dandy: thanks. voder, kick down the door.

[balzabul]

vsqx by me; reference vocals big al

Aaand I successfully resurrected Voder with RVC! The first attempt at synthesizing human speech, and first demo'd for the public at the 1939 New York World's Fair. We joke about different synths being "Miku's grandpa" but this guy's the real deal in that regard.

Only about a single minute of the original voice is available as recordings today! So this model has literally one minute of data behind it. If I had to guess I'd say it's so successful regardless because the original is already only making sounds out of two basic inputs, so it doesn't take much to recreate it. Idk tho.

[hadalpelagiczone]

everything's gonna b alright

[alltimewhat]

i like making memes for my ocs and the three people who would get them

[autistickaitovocaloid]

I fucking love following vsynth people who you can just immediately tell have one of them who's just their specific special little guy.

[magpiecrust]

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