a device that takes speech or music input and produces artificial speech or music as the outputEver wondered what a vocoder is?It's a sound distorter originally invented during World War II to pr [..]

Short for voice encoder. A device that encodes and decodes the sound of human voice into/from digital format for transmission. Different vocoder types may produce digital data of different bitrates (a [..]

Abbreviation for voice-coder. A device that usually consists of a speech analyzer, which converts analog speech waveforms into narrowband digital signals, and a speech synthesizer, which converts the digital signals into artificial speech sounds. Note 1: For COMSEC purposes, a vocoder may be used in conjunction with a key generator and a modulator- [..]

An abbreviation and coined word for Voice Coder. In digital cellular operations, speech is encoded before transmission to reduce the number of bits required to represent speech. Current reduction (early 2002) is about 25%. The technology was introduced by Samsung's cellular division.

  Voice Coder, or Speech Digitizer Method for converting (analogue) human voice signals into digital data, in such a way that it can be used for digital storage and/or transmission. Vocoders are also [..]

 

An effects device that will modulate (control) one signal with another.