vocoder
/vəʊˈkəʊdə
/noun
A synthesizer that produces sounds from an analysis of speech input.He has been substituted with voice vocoders, heavy synthesizers and dubious baselines....
- They used and combined synthesizers, vocoders, custom-built sequencers, rudimentary rhythm boxes, and home made drum pads in a fashion unlike anything previously heard.
- Today, there seem to be as many virtual instrument plug-ins as there are guitars, synths, vocoders, basses, string sections and electric pianos to emulate.
Origin
1930s: from voice + code + -er1.
Rhymes
- fluorocarbon
- fluorochrome
- fluoroform
- fluorogenic
- fluorogram
- fluorograph
- fluorographic
- non-fiction
- non-fictional
- non-fighting
- non-figuration
- non-figurative
- non-final
- non-finality
- non-finding
- non-finite
- non-flam
- non-flammability
- non-flammable
- non-flowering
- non-fluent
- non-flying
- non-formal
- non-fossil
- non-frat