When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now, more than 20 years on, Antares has released a vocoder plugin that has Auto-Tune ...

Explore the fascinating evolution of the vocoder, talkbox, and Auto-Tune, tracing their journey from Bell Labs through World War II to their influence on Daft Punk in this episode of Version History.

* Photo: Joseph Maida * From Lil Wayne's cyborg-slick singing on "Lollipop" to the Twiki-tweaked vocals of T-Pain, use of the voice-enhancing software Auto-Tune has reached a fever pitch. But it turns ...

Stop Smiling Books/ Melville House; 335 pp. The room contains two turntables and a microphone. Hulking consoles line the walls, covered in dials and gauges and blinking lights, like the bridge of ...

DAVE TOMPKINS’ new book is titled How to Wreck a Nice Beach, but it has nothing to do with the BP oil spill, or any coast at all. Instead, the phrase he chose for his book title is how the words “how ...

"A combination of something slightly more robotic or machine-led with the natural voice can be quite moving or quite unusual [...] That's something I've always wanted to explore." For the third week ...

T-Pain is tired of hearing the sound of his own, heavily processed voice. Actually, the Tallahassee, Fla., hip-hop star is tired of hearing everybody else simulating the sound of his synthesized voice ...

If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've probably heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. That's thanks to the vocoder, a device invented by Bell Labs, the research ...

It took me a long time to get to grips with T-Pain. I had nothing against his cuddly cheeks or tie-dyed dreads. I didn't even mind his silly lyrics about strippers and being "sprung". No, it was the ...

Leaving aside the fact that vocoders and Auto-Tune are two totally different technologies — c’mon, Wyclef! — the case made in “Mr. Auto-Tune” has one critical flaw: “Mr. Auto-Tune,” itself, is way ...