The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from codebreakers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it had been repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians and soon became the ubiquitous voice of popular music.
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Yeah, NPR did up a piece about this a few months back: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor =126781688
Good stuff.
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Lulz, that room looks like it would be in NASA or something ahah