The design of the vocoder broke speech (as an input signal) down into multiple bands, retaining only those necessary for speech intelligibility. Instead, in the 1920s, Homer Dudley at Bell Labs created a device whose function was to make it easier to transmit telephone conversations over long distances by reducing bandwidth. The vocoder didn’t actually start life as a musical instrument. In this blog we’re going to look at the history of vocoders and how they work. It didn’t take long for vocal sounds and textures that were heavily reliant on manipulated production processes to offer new areas of creativity-vocoding is one such technique. The notion of overdubbing multiple voices in harmony, or multitracking the lead vocal to create a natural "doubling" effect, became popular. Emerging from an early need of engineers to capture voices accurately for radio broadcasts and early recordings, voice synthesis soon grew to encompass many creative applications. Throughout recorded history, producers have sought out “the new” through a study of the recorded, synthesized, or enhanced human voice.
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