The vocoder was a real device and a pretty cool gizmo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

Noise reduction: CDMA2000 uses an exclusive technology called vocoder EVRC which reduces background noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [SearchMobileComputing: Mobile advice] Reference

Thomas Pynchon 's Gravity's Rainbow, the vocoder is a vehicle, a proxy for forces bigger than the freaks-Egyptian Lover, JFK-who employ it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference

One conceit of the novel is that the narrator is recording her thoughts into a "vocoder", and this is what we are reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-02-01] Reference

Eiffel 65, an Italian trio, has exploited the voice-altering "vocoder" technique popularized by the diva's 1999 hit "Believe.".    From Wordnik.com.  [From Out Of The 'Blue'] Reference

He calls the vocoder "that Joker.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

He tries to laugh, but the vocoder can't handle it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Current Music: euphonium sample, looped, through vocoder.    From Wordnik.com.  [euphonium mangling part deux] Reference

What is the connection between the vocoder and Auto-Tune?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock] Reference

Acton's vocoder gurgles; in air, it would be a sad laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

"Lucky guess," Clarke says, her vocoder hiding uncertainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Do you think that ultimately the vocoder was good for music?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock] Reference

Clarke shouts; the vocoder turns her voice into a tinny vibrato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

She means it as a question, but her vocoder loses the intonation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Acton's vocoder gurgles indecipherably — a laugh, mistransposed?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Clarke's got her vocoder cranked loud enough to hurt her own ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

A sound comes out of Lenie's vocoder, and he has no idea what it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Electrix Warpfactory vocoder line: auto, band low gender -18 7'clock.    From Wordnik.com.  [bagpipes! I have bagpipes!] Reference

Electrix WarpFactory vocoder line: auto, band high gender 0 12'clock.    From Wordnik.com.  [it's the voice of the wendigo] Reference

He says the vocoder played a significant role in the Second World War.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock] Reference

Plus these guys totally know how to use a vocoder without overdoing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Tansy Maude Peregrine: Denver's Essential Concert Calendar] Reference

And essentially that introduced the vocoder to its first major audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock] Reference

Unidentified Man: (Speaking through vocoder) This is the Voice of Power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock] Reference

Julia was present, and acquitted herself well, especially with the vocoder.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews - Unreadable.....] Reference

I've got the WarpFactory vocoder and mostly use it to mutate drum loops with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electrix is discontinuing their current product line] Reference

Vocals have gone the way of the vocoder (T-Pain, don't have to say much else).    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Werman: Genre Bending: How Hip Hop Became Kind of hip Pop] Reference

Unfortunately it was retired when I got a Eventide H3000s with a vocoder it it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr Champagne is building himself a synth] Reference

She tries to speak gently, but the vocoder strips her voice down to a soft rasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

She tries, and fails, to squeeze some hint of bored contempt through the vocoder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Caraco's vocoder emits static; Lenie feels the other woman's laughter from inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Now I realise that you're nobody unless you have 5 synths, a sequencer and a vocoder.    From Wordnik.com.  [All your Korgs are belong to us, Part 2] Reference

Wendy Carlos did a vocoder interpolation of the fourth movement of Beethoven's "Ninth.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock] Reference

That strange sound was made by speaking into one of their newest inventions, a vocoder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock] Reference

And I happen to have a spare vocoder kit, new in box, if someone wants to make an offer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatness of Paia] Reference

But as the vocoder evolved, they knew the voice, they just had no idea where it came from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock] Reference

It sounds almost exactly like a very badly edited spoken-word recording fed into a vocoder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vocal Writer: nice singing robot for Mac] Reference

T-Pain's got a grill full of metal and a big ol 'chain that could buy him 10 vocoder machines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shawn Amos: Bye-Bye, Bling: A Recessionary Note to Rappers Everywhere] Reference

Their one major sonic change is welcome, as they ditched the dated vocoder vocals of the debut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Remington: A Modern Classic: Cynic's Traced in Air, A Reunion Album As Good As the Classic Debut] Reference

Auto-Tune is often mistaken for vocoder, so in a sense Auto-Tune brought the vocoder back in vogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocoder: From Speech-Scrambling To Robot Rock] Reference