Before T-Pain was using Auto-Tune to buy girls drinks, Franklin D. Roosevelt was using the vocoder to win World War II. In “How to Wreck a Nice Beach,” music critic Dave Tompkins (The Wire, Vibe) ...

When T-Pain and his synthesized vocals made their debut with the songs “I’m Sprung” and “I’m N Luv (Wit A Stripper)” three years ago, most people dismissed the hits as novelties and expected the ...

While it’s hardly surprising to see celebrity music gear show up on eBay, we were hard pressed to think of a single instance of Monty Python using a vocoder to process their voices. But for a mere ...

The phase vocoder is a tool used to perform time-stretching and pitch-shifting on recorded sounds. Voice morphing is the process of producing intermediate or hybrid voices between the utterances of ...

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