http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0&feature=feedu Considered the first electrical speech synthesizer, VODER (Voice Operation DEmonstratoR) was developed by Homer Dudley at Bell Labs and demonstrated at both the 1939 New York World's Fair and the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. Difficult to use and difficult to operate, VODER nonetheless paved the way for future machine-generated speech.
I love early tech videos like this, and I don't think I'd seen that one, so thanks. I remember checking out the subject back in uni and reading that there were mechanical voice synthesisers, going back hundreds of years. I'd love to see a video of one of those but it doesn't look like there's much on YouTube.
That is too cool! I never heard of VODER before, I found an article on it, not much it's something... http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,771371,00.html
Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do... as sung by the IBM 7094 back in 1961 with a computer generated background that sounds better then the AY-3-891x series of chips... HAL anyone? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlBmbt8IVv4 One of the first voice recognition demostrations back in the late 60s, over 40 years later and it has not improved that much. :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ_zlj4pFV0
Hahaha, of all the songs to bring up. I found a fully-working Heathkit Hero Jr. at an auction a couple months ago, and that's it's favorite song to sing (0:26). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8dUL9qgU1M
"Incidentally, synthesizing music on a computer is almost as formidable as making a computer talk." lolz. Oh, The Past... you and your ideas of what computers are capable of doing. Shit like that ought to make people realize how terrible we are at predicting the future.
