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Detailed description of how vocoders work as well as ways of improving results.
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Vocoders and Vocoder Derivatives  I remember my technology history correctly, Homer Dudley invented the first vocoders in the 1930s as a means of reproducing an intelligible facsimile of a voice for recorded messages on telephone systems. In those days before really practical recording systems...
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mr88c...VocodingWebDemo/VocoderDemo.html

Modular 13-band vocoder designed for the A100 modular synthesis system.
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A-129 English  Working principle of a the Vocoder The term vocoder is derived from the words voice and coder. A vocoder is an audio processor that captures the characteristic elements of an an audio signal normally a human voice and then uses...
http://www.doepfer.de/a129e.htm

Inexpensive rack mount kit designed by Craig Anderton.
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PAiA: Vocoder  Eight bands of resolution let you make instruments speak with remarkable intelligibility. But that’s only the beginning of applications for this versatile spectral cross-modulator which impresses the timbre of one sound source to directly onto the pitch of a second...
http://www.paia.com/vocoder.htm

MIDI controlled hardware device, several audio demos available.
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electrix products warpfactory  Simply plug in a microphone to use the built in oscillator for the classic vocoder voice. Or combine any two signals to create human-like intergalactic sounds. How about using the WarpFactory to morph a drum machine with a keyboard for...
http://www.electrixpro.com/products/warpfactory.html

11-band vocoder with integrated filterbank functionality.
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MAM music and more  ...
http://www.mam-germany.de/

Synthesizer with integrated 8-band vocoder and microphone.
http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?A_PROD_NO=microKORG