(Laughter) Everybody that robotic voice is the Voder - V-O-D-E-R - full name - voice-operating demonstrator. It was developed by an engineer, Homer Dudley, at Bell Labs about 90 years ago.

The Voder was operated (or “played” in the language of the Voder’s creators) almost entirely by Helen Harper, writes Eric Grundhauser for Atlas Obscura. Harper also trained others to operate ...

The Voder was created by one [Homer Dudley] at Bell Laboratories. He did so in conjunction with the Vocoder, which analyzes human-generated speech for encrypted transfer and re-synthesizes it on ...

The Voder was invented by Homer Dudley, who is well-known by computer scientists for a long career of distinguished work in artificial speech, the most famous use case for which is probably ...

On June 5, 1938, "Pedro, the Voder" was put on display to the public for the first time at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. One of the first devices to create human speech, the Voder was a ...

Voder creates a variety of sounds resembling human speech closely enough to be easily intelligible. It is intended to flabbergast, enlighten and amuse visitors to this year’s world’s fairs in ...

Ever since the Voder, Bell Labs’ artificial-voice machine, blurted out a barely intelligible “Good evening, radio audience …” at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, voice engineers have been ...

The Voder was created by one [Homer Dudley] at Bell Laboratories. He did so in conjunction with the Vocoder, which analyzes human-generated speech for encrypted transfer and re-synthesizes it on ...

A 1939 invention called the Voder produced human-like sounds. It was an early electronic voice machine. Listen Share Mar, 20 2017 (All Things Considered) Listen ...