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jan 1, 1939 - Vocoder speech synthesizer

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A voice modeler, invented in 1939. This valve-driven machine was played by a human operator. It had two keyboards, buttons to recreate consonants, a pedal for oscillator frequency control, and a wrist-bar to switch vowel sounds on and off.

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jan 1, 1939
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~ 87 years ago

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