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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery

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The Evolution of Vooders

The VODER is a completely synthesized voice and uses some of this underlying technology to create a re-synthesized and encrypted human voice. It was deployed in 12 sites around the US and in the UK so that there could be private military communications. JFK, for example, even used it in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bob Moog builds one in 1968 and in collaboration with Wendy Carlos, they make a vocoder in 1971 - performed on the soundtrack for Clockwork Orange.

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