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561 The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 03/22/2026 09:45 EDT

The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever

The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. It wasn't supposed to be anything in music, really. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a simpler way to send phone calls across copper telephone lines. The engineer, Homer Dudley, built some pretty neat technology […]

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