id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
dancecult-346	van Veen, tobias c.	How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, the Machine Speaks (Dave Tompkins)	2012		.htm	text/html	1855	102	67	Though analogue vocoders had been built after the War by the likes of Siemens, it was Robert Moog (and Wendy Carlos) who built one of the first solid-state vocoders in 1970. In 1939, vocoder inventor Homer Dudley (of Bell Labs) offered the vocoder to MGM Studios in Hollywood as a “scientific aid to movie stars,” a kind of autofix for bad voicing, possibly for use in overdubbing (49).	cache/dancecult-346.htm	txt/dancecult-346.txt