"We don't anticipate any commercial use for the Voder." Little did they know...

@ZuraTheCat

4 жыл бұрын

Wait.. can I buy one?

@okunote5805

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZuraTheCat i think they're referring to vocaloid/voiceroid and similar products ^^

@manwhat4432

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZuraTheCat well, there's a Voder voice in Chipspeech

@arianamarie8442

3 жыл бұрын

@@manwhat4432 did they manage to replicate this one? I've searched for examples of its voice everywhere, but I can't find any. I'm considering buying it, but without an example of his voice I'm pretty unsure.

@NorasinYT

3 жыл бұрын

@@arianamarie8442 there's a demo you can try

This lady must know this machine to an extreme degree of detail. What a powerhouse.

@RogerTheil

5 жыл бұрын

Out of 300+ women training on this thing, she made the cut for the tech demo. That speaks for itself.

@bengelman2600

16 күн бұрын

Reminds me of the theremin. Dude that made it was good, lady was amazing. Girls are no joke.

brilliant, 78 years ago, we had a voice synthesizer. that is beyond amazing.

@acf2802

5 жыл бұрын

Considering its functionality as such is completely reliant on the skill of an operator requiring "a year of constant practice" I would say it qualifies more as a musical instrument.

@dvoraj20

5 жыл бұрын

@@acf2802 I believe that Dale was talking about Mrs Harper here, not just the machine.

@elirosenkim3659

5 жыл бұрын

@@acf2802 all synthesizers are musical instruments

@Alan_One1

5 жыл бұрын

Some Dieselpunk stuff right here.

@user2C47

5 жыл бұрын

It might be possible to make it automatic, but each word would have to be programmed manually.

This was profoundly advanced for the 1940s.

@TheMrPeteChannel

3 жыл бұрын

1930s ;)

@mattdonmovies

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMrPeteChannel it was almost the 40`s

@ff-qf1th

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattdonmovies then it would be the late 30's

@ImSumGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Take into account this was recorded in 1939, and the woman said they took about a year to learn, assuming they didn't all try to learning at the same time (a class of 300+ is practically impossible, especially for non-commercial equipment where production is limited), all things considered, the earliest I'd deduce this to be in active development with prototype would be 1937. Wikipedia validates this saying it was invented 1937-1938, indicating uncertainty to the exact date of first prototype, likely due to related work the inventor was doing.

@buddyguy4723

2 жыл бұрын

@@ImSumGuy they probably had one machine giving 1 hour lessons per day per girl over one year.

10 years later it got it's wish to become a real boy, and founded Kraftwerk.

@cdibradshaw82

6 жыл бұрын

truly an operator of a pocket calculator

@Switcher1972

5 жыл бұрын

Truly a future man machine...

@ThomasNimmesgern

5 жыл бұрын

In their sparetime, they pretend to be robots driving on a German highway. Die Fahrbahn ist ein graues Band, mit weißen Streifen, grüner Rand.

@thiesenf

5 жыл бұрын

And it also play music nonstop...

@littlebritain64

5 жыл бұрын

Uno, due, tre-quatro (quattro😄).

"Helen you are so silly. Let's her him recite:" INTERGALACTIC PLANETARY PLANETARY INTERGALACTIC

@JuniorJr...

6 жыл бұрын

"Another dimension, another dimension"...

@michaelallen2418

6 жыл бұрын

Zen Intergalactic "Planetary" Ninja. Silly stuff. Crash dummy test pilot.

@BubsCC

6 жыл бұрын

DECEARING EGG

@darynvoss7883

5 жыл бұрын

L I M P Spell it Discover

@NotMe35971

5 жыл бұрын

lol, nearly got heart attack

Still easier to understand than half the people I work with.

@officialJoCa

5 жыл бұрын

u wut mate?

@MarquisDeSang

19 күн бұрын

easier to understand than Biden

“SHE saw me.” “She saw meee!” “She saaaw me!”

@joannamysluk8623

3 жыл бұрын

Simps: ⬆️

@leavemealone2154

3 жыл бұрын

@@joannamysluk8623 your rude

@joannamysluk8623

3 жыл бұрын

@@leavemealone2154 Um no, I was making a joke.

@amansardana8639

3 жыл бұрын

Objekt!

@GullibleMcFly

3 жыл бұрын

Joke: funny. 🙄

Man, hats off to Ms. Harper... this is actually way more complex than playing piano, even!

@niccster1061

5 жыл бұрын

@MorbidManMusic I have played a large variety of instruments before and I can tell you that piano is very simple. Sure you can play very impressive things with it but it is very limited to only a few factors. Things like the vodor have an immensely difficult learning curve because of all of the factors you must control. The entry level difficulty for the vodor is much more difficult than with piano

@merendobereglidditz9304

5 жыл бұрын

True! Like piano, organ and steno machine at the same time. Throw in a foot operated loom, too. Wow.

@Guitcad1

5 жыл бұрын

I would compare it to playing pedal steel guitar.

@havokmusicinc

5 жыл бұрын

More like a full organ with multiple manuals (keyboards), a pedal set, and stops (switches which change the timbre be engaging or disengaging sets of pipes).

@King_Flippy_Nips

5 жыл бұрын

what about homer dudley who invented it and also speech synthesis, didgtal compression and digital encryption/decryption, we wouldnt have modern computers or the internet or cell phones and satellite communication without his groundwork

who thought about the HOURS the operator, this brilliant woman, spent on that bloody machine before extracting the sounds for this demonstration....

@Avetho

3 жыл бұрын

She was skilled beyond measure compared to just about everyone today. Its too bad Helen Harper is probably no longer in the land of the living, she was certainly an adult in 1939, that assumes she was born in perhaps 1920 at the latest, more likely 1915 or so since in photos she appears to be mid-20s, so that's over 100 years ago. But wow, realtime speech synthesis, her skills were at the level of replying via machine-voice at the same speed that it would take her to reply with her own vocal cords! She basically rewired her own brain by sheer will and hours of practice to be capable of two individual modes of speech!

@MichaelWeaser

3 жыл бұрын

@@Avetho Helen Harper was born in 1918 and passed away in 2010 : www.northcountrynow.com/obituaries/helen-harper-92-formerly-norwood

@user-nl3xw4gg7m

26 күн бұрын

Seeing a woman working in a field like this was definitely rare in those days.

The grandpa of Vocaloid.

@nolongeractive8257

5 жыл бұрын

more like great-great grandfather of ALL vocal synths

@feralferret

5 жыл бұрын

Vocaloid isn't a true voice synthesiser, it's more a mixing method of splicing pre-recorded snippets. A true synthesiser generates the sound without samples.

@MakkusuOtaku

5 жыл бұрын

@@feralferret Not really, it does synthesis to a degree. Like in longer notes and such. Of course some of the newer ones are a bit more complicated

@romo2674

5 жыл бұрын

The father of Vocoder.

@jeopardy60611

5 жыл бұрын

As I said in a previous comment, the only thing missing is the automated control of a computer. I suppose that if you talk about doing Vocaloid where you add a vocal electronically to a song, it would only work with a live performance with Helen having to produce the speech on the fly. She could probably "play" the voder to sing Auld Lang Syne with a band. But it takes a computer to lay the vocal down as a recorded track and keep it in sync with everything else recorded in a song.

As a software developer what I find so amazing is that they developed something that had no real use, but the work in developing this probably yielded some very important technologies or understandings. It's s shame that nowadays so much of what we spend money on has to have a use or what we call in the software world a 'use case' . Sometimes discovery and play are good enough reasons in themselves.

@dockdrumming

5 жыл бұрын

Spot on.

@jeopardy60611

2 жыл бұрын

Like I said in another comment, the problem with the Voder was that it had to be operated by a person. Speech synthesis only became useful when it was built into computers. I actually find this video fascinating because I'm a computer programmer and do automated phone applications, one of which is a voice internet service that reads email and web pages with text-to-speech. I got interested in doing that because of discovering synthetic speech devices as a kid, such as arcade games like Berzerk and Gorf, a voice-enabled chess computer, and a Speak & Spell.

@eog1234

Жыл бұрын

It might have changed some mutes life at the time though

@jonp4846

Ай бұрын

There was a lot of discovery and play going on at Bell Labs back then.

A musical ear, great hand eye coordination, and obsession was required to operate one of these. I wonder if anyone is left that can still puppet one of these.

@bountyhunter4885

5 жыл бұрын

Hold my beer, while I crack my phalanges... 👋🎹👋 🎼🎶🔊

The person working the Voder is the real champ. That keyboard + FX chain must have taken forever to master.

@King_Flippy_Nips

5 жыл бұрын

yea i guess homer dudley who invented it was a chump he only invented speech synthesis, digital compression and digital encryption/decryption, we wouldnt have modern computers or the internet or cell phones and satellite communication without his groundwork

Miss Harper is a bad ass.

@Avetho

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah she was. An absolute total badass. Btw, I was gonna make a joke about how she's actually quite the charming looking lady in response to the presence of a space in the word "badass" in your comment, but eh, I'm just in a spazzy mood today XD

Still better than the speech synthesis in Tomodachi Life

@LuciferXFallen290

6 жыл бұрын

Floppy Disk Master gotta agree on that one

@kotla333

5 жыл бұрын

Yo coming for the ATTACK

@hollyjohnson5420

5 жыл бұрын

they may be less expressive but they sound WAY more like what youd expect to come out of a real persons mouth

@ruler_of_everything

4 жыл бұрын

it actually sounds the same sorta

@MilesPrower1992

4 жыл бұрын

"Here. I want you to have this."

Voder: I am your father Daft Punk: Noooooooo... Daft Voder :-/

@layoutgames-boris3481

5 жыл бұрын

Daft Punk made the voice synths using talkbox

@harukatakahashi8822

4 жыл бұрын

@@layoutgames-boris3481 when was the talk of invented

@harukatakahashi8822

4 жыл бұрын

xD lol?!?!?

@robinok3

4 жыл бұрын

the best part is I came here after watching 2001, and I feel like I've come full circle

@macadamianut824

4 жыл бұрын

Layout Games no they didn’t. They used the vocoder.

That takes hella talent to control.

@l3p3

5 жыл бұрын

No, just practise.

@niccster1061

5 жыл бұрын

@@l3p3 no. Practice creates talent. So both of you are right

@Qui-9

5 жыл бұрын

@@l3p3 if you listened to the video, you'd have understood that less than 10% of anyone could operate it sufficiently after an entire year of practice. So yes, talent was required.

@IPODsify

5 жыл бұрын

It seems there aren't enough buttons on it for this to be a legitimate product. Unless the buttons are individual phonemes? Well there are like 30 phonemes in standard English so I'm curious

@TheSunshineGroup

5 жыл бұрын

@@niccster1061 so does that explain the 6 year old piano prodigies? Do you not believe it born talent?

Helen, could you have him say, "Domo arigato Mister Roboto"?

@DARisse-ji1yw

5 жыл бұрын

Please don't.

@jeopardy60611

5 жыл бұрын

The effect in the Styx song is done with a Vocoder, which takes an audio signal with speech and makes it sound like a robot. The Voder actually produces speech.

@buddyclem7328

5 жыл бұрын

@@jeopardy60611 Yes. If you look deeper into how a vocoder works, you'll find that the voder is half of a vocoder. We use a version of the vocoder daily every time we use the telephone, and that's why phone calls sound funny. Vocoders are my favorite musical effect, since I grew up in the 1970s.

@jeopardy60611

5 жыл бұрын

@@buddyclem7328 I'm very disappointed that cell phones, cable phones, and other VOIP phones sound inferior to a traditional landline, but even though I got a landline when I moved into my new place 2 years ago, everyone I call has a phone that sounds horrible, so I can't understand people on the phone. It's almost as bad as 100 years ago when phones weren't amplified and you could hardly hear on them, as I tried out an early phone in a museum once.

@buddyclem7328

5 жыл бұрын

@@jeopardy60611 I think that land lines have also degraded in quality. Since there are so many phone companies, and so many types of phone service now, it could be caused by encoding and decoding the audio stream multiple times and using different methods of encoding. Lag is the hardest part for me to get used to, followed by the uncertainty that I can be heard. It also bothers me that I cannot disable Caller ID on incoming calls.

That “mooo” was the creepiest thing of the whole video

At 1:18, when the Voder said "greetings, everybody," I think of KAITO's voice and how they sound somewhat similar. P.S. 1:28 makes me think of Gackupo.

@sasukes.6370

2 жыл бұрын

So I wasn’t the only one that thought this machine sounded like the Vocaloid guys xD

Thing probably had a bazillion vacuum tubes and could heat the room in winter by itself.

@hunteradcock8023

5 жыл бұрын

In a number of seconds no less

@MrSpacelyy

5 жыл бұрын

It actually is more like an electronic organ. Not a computer. It would just be as warm as an organ

I feeel fantaaaaastiiic

@LooDoesStuff

7 жыл бұрын

RustyRainbow22 I Love this vídeo XD

@guys-in9vd

6 жыл бұрын

also

@MrScoopoo10

6 жыл бұрын

Please leave

@Shiznit304

5 жыл бұрын

hey hey hey

@slimeslaggagedon794

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shiznit304 It's faaaaaat Albert!

As someone who relies on speech synthersis every day, and who oft takes it for granted, this is kind of humbling. Created simply to prove a principle... or just to wow folk with what Bell labs could do, its inventors had no way of knowing they had created the dinosaur ancestor of Hal and Jaws and Window Eyes. Totally amazing stuff! Someone needs to create a screen reader voice that sounds like the voder!

interesting how in the past ten year vocal synthesizers have completely boomed and sky rocketed in popularity. it has developed faster than ever and it’s sounding more human than these people would’ve imagined. Cool to see where it all started in 1939

oh my god this is adorable, i love how they refer to the voder as he- i would die for him

To put this in perspective, the first automobile was only around 50 years old at this time.

2:12 And there you have it folks, one of the most popular audio effects in YTPs done in 1939!

@fartyperson

5 жыл бұрын

ha yeah

@RetroPlus

5 жыл бұрын

Incredible.

@derrrtee

5 жыл бұрын

Vibrato existed long before even this machine

I honestly think it's kind of cute

@harukatakahashi8822

4 жыл бұрын

:3

@Chaotic_Observer

4 жыл бұрын

ikr, its strange how these people are able to give a robot a personality

Microsoft Sam's great grandfather

@couchcamperTM

5 жыл бұрын

@cgwworldministries sad but true. like if development stalled there... and went back a bit.

@buddyclem7328

5 жыл бұрын

*_"I COULD ALWAYS DO LOTS OF AMAZING THINGS!"_*

@dsma2023

5 жыл бұрын

soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi

@10MANOEL

5 жыл бұрын

You have selected Microsoft's Sam as the computer default voice.

@williamsmith6921

4 жыл бұрын

@@couchcamperTM The difference is that one is automatic and the other has to be manually adjusted

This lady is an absolute BEAST

Ya know, those unvoiced consonants sound really damned good.

"So, what instrument do you play?" "Well, about that..."

more impressed with the skill of the operator then the machine - and that's are rare thing

@REDACT3D

5 жыл бұрын

yeah I suppose, it took me years before I built my first vocoder @Gackt Sama

@King_Flippy_Nips

5 жыл бұрын

@Gackt Sama homer dudley invented it and also speech synthesis, didgtal compression and digital encryption/decryption, we wouldnt have modern computers or the internet or cell phones and satellite communication without his groundwork

This is such an under appreciated tool... Imagine what a professional musician would do with it today?

@pygmalion8952

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe mumble rap?

@alecfleming373

5 жыл бұрын

@@pygmalion8952 Right, but ok while totally not practical, if there was more options (as many as this has) on the digital versions then I feel my own work on Punk Computer would of been better and more expressive. Note though I wrote that set many years ago. Moved away from the idea because of limits...

@gizmo4192

Жыл бұрын

Check out modern voice synths like Vocaloid, Utau, and SynthV. They havw been used to make music for the past two decades

This was done with live keyboard and foot pedal input by the operator to produce ANY words or sentences instantly. Without a voice tube or mic input, I don’t think anyone could do this LIVE today with any modern synth.

@jeopardy60611

2 жыл бұрын

You're thinking of a "vocoder," "talkbox," or "squeezebox." Some of the electronics may be similar, but the vocoder actually provides the electronics to make the vocal sound, rather than someone's voice going through it.

78 years ahead of it's time

Amazing. And part of the 1939 world's fair.

@ikewasgen45

3 жыл бұрын

Of things to come

It's great to listen 1939's voices without that weird accent, isn't?

@PawnshopmikeATL

6 жыл бұрын

Junior ...they say you learn something new everyday ... I saw a video of a lady that is an expert in American English accents & that weird accent you speak of is called “transatlantic” is not real !!!! It was created by Hollywood with the sole purpose of being more exciting Isn’t that crazy .....

@malfattio2894

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2Sl3KuTkcy2dtY.html

@bandombeviews6035

5 жыл бұрын

PawnShopMike - So it was to make it more interesting as opposed to modern news stations that are trying to sound as generic and region free as possible

@clevoloki55

5 жыл бұрын

It was an attempt to sound affluent more than anything - speaking with a transatlantic accent was supposed to make you sound like you came from “better” blood

@ronaldwilliamson4762

5 жыл бұрын

A huge number of American movie stars were english. 3 of the top stars in Gone With the Wind were English.

guy: who saw you? machine: "sheee saaaw meeee"

from a synth freak's point of view - bloody amazing!

this is insanely cool i love old tech and the history of stuff like this

Nestled right in the middle of uncanny valley 👌🏼

That's incredible, truly impressive for 1939! It's crazy how you basically play it like an instrument, it's really facing.

In a very real sense, that was the core of the early computer speech cards. Instead of fingers controlling switches, it was done with computer bits.

better than text to speech

I think we've found the inspiration for the speech in Tomodachi Life, everybody!

@PawnshopmikeATL

6 жыл бұрын

The Shadowman they say you learn something new everyday ... I saw a video of a lady that is an expert in American English accents & that weird accent you speak of is called “transatlantic” is not real !!!! It was created by Hollywood with the sole purpose of being more exciting Isn’t that crazy .....

I just thought of something. At the end of the video, they say that the Voder has no commercial applications. Since the Voder can only perform live and can't be automated in any way, the one thing it can do is be used in a science fiction movie that depicts a talking computer or robot. Since the speech just needs to be recorded for the movie, it can be produced in real time, and it doesn't matter that there is not yet a computerized process to do it automatically.

*VOCALOID 0.0 VERSION* *MIKU'S FATHER WAS BORN IN 1939 AND HE IS ALMOST 90 YEARS OLD!*

@nolongeractive8257

5 жыл бұрын

nope... great great grandfather

@johneygd

5 жыл бұрын

This year the voder will be 80 years old,let’s celibrate it.

@Magestig

5 жыл бұрын

_That's not how math works_

@kdigiacomo

5 жыл бұрын

Yelling in bold caps, need attention?

@bLackmarketRadio

5 жыл бұрын

Anime is garbage for garbage people. Two bombs weren't enough.

Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do. I'm half crazy....

@Pladderkasse

5 жыл бұрын

Open the pod bay doors, Hal!

@sopitacui

3 жыл бұрын

All for the love of youuu

Damn I was expecting the end to include “and now for our western listeners, say good afternoon radio audience”

I was always fascinated with computerized speech. I discovered a Fidelity voice chess computer, Speak & Spell, a Radio Shack TRS-80 Voice Synthesizer, and video games such as Gorf and Wizard of War, and that paved the way for what I'm doing now, a system that reads email and web pages over the phone. I had no idea that there was a speech synthesizer so long ago that had to be operated manually.

"Shall we play a game? How about global thermonuclear warfare?"

"requiring ten fingers, two foot paddles, a knee lever....." sounds like the manual operation of a pedal steel guitar!

There go my favorite vocaloid

5'00" As a french man i has to say, i always loved listening to a robot speaking french with an american accent lol ^^

I love this so much! If only someone could make an online version of it. I would love to try it!

I have a feeling that this kind of speech synthesis technology might pop back up in the future.

“Helen, what else can he say?” “I want your clothes, your boots and your motor-cycle…”

Why isn't this in a horror movie or something its amazing

Darth Voder!

Sounds far better than most current speech synthesizers.

"sO eAsY eVen A wOmAN cAN dO It" 28 out of 320 women, and a year of practice. 93.75% of those who got in, never finished. Can you even imagine how difficult that is? Women truly are the unsung heroes of computers.

@toomanyaccounts

3 жыл бұрын

women were at home in those days. they had plenty of free time

This is actually better than 95% of synthetic voices.

@gizmo4192

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, you should check out vocaloid. You can get almost human vocals.

@OttoOG3

Жыл бұрын

​@@gizmo4192 Nope, SynthV has better vocals.

@gizmo4192

Жыл бұрын

@@OttoOG3 True but I never said vocaloid was the best, I just offered a widely known example of modern voice synthesis

Recommended by 8 bit guy How to get inspiration of Vocaloid

@sligovolts

5 жыл бұрын

I was trying to remember how I got this on my "watch next", thank you

@JOELwindows7

5 жыл бұрын

@@sligovolts np

@harukatakahashi8822

4 жыл бұрын

What video please

Helen the original synthlord queen. All hail helen synthlord queen!

Looks to be at the RCA exhibit at 1939 NYWF. The first TV was across the floor being displayed for the first time, ever. I would head to the Westinghouse Exhibit and check out Elecktro the first robot and check out the worlds first official "Time Capsule" after the RCA Exhibit. 1939 NYWF will be a huge destination for time travelers one day. Too many world changing inventions debuted that year there for it not to be.

@hurricanefury439

6 ай бұрын

bell labs not RCA

this is a lot better than what i thought it would be

This is like the sort of invention my younger self would (and did and still sometimes does) come up with: A prostetic voice. While competely ignoring practical considerations like size, portability, and the staggering musical *talent* needed for use Maybe not a mad scientist, but more of a rouge engineer. Another time another life, yeah?

It'd be great to have a working version.

Truly amazing given the time and resources! Such innovation that ended up being "commercial"!

still amazing to me in 2019

Hey Miku, Is this your grandpa? He seems nice..

@LuciferXFallen290

6 жыл бұрын

Jude Norell you mean great great grandfather

@joannamysluk8623

3 жыл бұрын

Now that I think of it, he sounds like Kaito English when he's used for Talkloids.

@tabbnabber8755

3 жыл бұрын

Family Tree by generation: Voder -> Vocoder-> IBM 7094 -> Vocaloid This is a light hearted joke btw :)

The most important speech synth ever made.

Great post ! Tube synth circuits with such ability, I had no Idea. The evolution of technology is almost as interesting as the technology itself. Electronics is thE single most useful & amazing thing we've discovered/invented imo.

i remember hearing about a voice synth before 1939, that looked like a traveling pipe organ and supposedly it had some sort of artificial head

Kraftwerk!

I wonder if this machine still exists, or if it became parts. It'd be really cool to see one work... or maybe see the schematics and build a clone.

@toomanyaccounts

3 жыл бұрын

there is a youtube recommendation on the right side of the screen listing a channel that would be nine months before you commented about a replica

Thank you Homer Dudley. I recently read How to wreck a nice beach and can't believe I am watching a video of the first vocoder.

That is extremely impressive!

I just thought of something. Although there was no computer technology around to automate the speech, there were pianos and organs that used paper rolls punched with holes to play them automatically. Perhaps the Voder could have been automated by recording the control movements on paper in a similar fashion, so a speech could have been recorded and played back that way.

bro tomodachi life has around the same quality voices wtf

There was a "Danny Dunn" book that made reference to a "voder." If I remember correctly, it was a remote control that unlocked a door by a voice saying "open."

this sounds so wierd. its crazy how much we have advanced

DAMN, the low voice is still pretty much the same robot voice used today. And it sounds like the Speak & Spell.

So wonderful. Peace Christo

homer dudley was a genius, he actually invented a type of digital compression for the phone company he worked for but was turned down when he offered it to them, he could have moved us decades ahead technilogically if they had let him continue to work on it

Bell Laboratories: We have a voice synthesizer that speaks. Kraftwerk: Hold my robot.......

Great for 1939

That’s actually so cool!! It sounds better than most voice synthesizers these days tbh-

early vocaloid

The great granddaddy of all voice sythns

Amazing. But all that choreography between keys and pedals makes it easy to understand why it didn't catch on. That's not criticism, btw. Is there a working example anywhere, the Smithsonian or the like? Or a recent video?

@beatsbeercigarettes

5 жыл бұрын

Right in the video it stated it was created for an exhibit at the worlds fair, for educational purposes and was never meant to be marketed at all.

@K.D.Meyers

5 жыл бұрын

@White Rice Then why did you answer?! 😐 😅😅

@jesuschrist8904

5 жыл бұрын

@@K.D.Meyers Subhumans who use emojis in lieu of language should be shot behind a shed.

Only 'a year of constant practice' to get it to do what you want. Sheesh. 😬

@functionatthejunction

3 жыл бұрын

So its easier to play than most other instruments then.

What was the purpose of this device though?

@PseudoPseudoDionysius

5 жыл бұрын

I’m guessing at the time it was probably just R&D for research’s own sake, plus demonstrating the engineering capabilities of the company to future contractors and investors. (I love your video game history videos btw!! :D)

@crazyhyena1406

3 жыл бұрын

So miku could walk sir

@jarls5890

3 жыл бұрын

Actually...when you make a phone call today - your voice is deconstructed and then reconstructed using much of this technology in order to save bandwidth. Same with the voice you hear. The cell phone line is not transmitting a "recording" as such of your, or anybody elses, voice.

@Yadobler

3 жыл бұрын

Yup like ^ said, bell was messing with trying to break down analogue sound into "signals" that controlled which frequencies to "turn the volume down" to get back the same This essentially became long-distant voice communication (as opposed to just morse-code telegraph) between allied governments in the world wars, and then eventually land-line (ie it wasn't just raw analogue signal of your voice in electric form being transmitted over cable, which back then grandma's would eavesdrop on their neighbours since a neighbourhood shared a line, but now it was rapid analogue signals of how much each frequency had to be filtered to recreate the voice.) This is why voice over telephone up till the mid 2010s had a distinct telephone-effect filter, since it was not 1-to-1 voice transmission like from a microphone to amp speakers, but more like a few dozen frequencies blasted together at equal strength and then limited by relevant filters. Think of like a sensitive high-speed music equaliser. The transmitting end was just having a dozen filters tuned only to pass specific frequency ranges, and the receiving end was taking a full-band sound and filtering it accordingly for each frequency band and then adding all up. The vocoder was just a trial to demonstrate the capabilities, by having a person manually activate switches instead of having a transmitter automatically making the relevant signals. Pretty cool tho. It's like instead of hooking the TV to the cable outlet, you had a system that allowed someone to manually recreate the signals that will draw on the screen

@rfmerrill

3 жыл бұрын

​@@jarls5890 Kinda brings up the question of just what is a "recording" anyway? The phone system codec you're describing is basically just lossy audio compression very tuned for voice. The most common one is known as AMR, and uses Linear Predictive Coding to very efficiently compress voice (down to 7-12 kilobits/sec total for the whole data stream). However it's a hybrid codec--because just using the LPC data on its own would produce a kind of unnatural-sounding voice, it also transmits a specially compressed stream of the error between the real signal and the LPC-modeled signal. Theoretically there's no limit to the fidelity if that residual stream is allowed to increase in bitrate so it would approach an exact recording of your voice (but in practice it is very low bitrate).

Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.

@KingLich451

5 жыл бұрын

@paulgascoigne5343

5 жыл бұрын

Daisy daisy.. give me your answer do...

@godouttathemachine

4 жыл бұрын

i'm a...fraid....

@sebudrsappu6098

3 жыл бұрын

2001

This is incredible.1939!i thought it was during the Moog incarnation, and I like to think I know of most(not all) of electronic history.thankyou.

HES SO CUTE I LOVE HIM

It´s really amazing!

Wow! I didn't think this was at all possible in the early 20th century.