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In 1928, physicist Homer Dudley began working to electronically compress human voices to send them more efficiently through phone lines. Coincidentally, Dudley’s efforts to improve telephone ...
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The vocoder—code name Special Customer, the Green Hornet, Project X-61753, X-Ray, and SIGSALY—started distorting human speech in earnest during World War II, in response to the excellence of German ...
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