This is the under-the-hood view of the keyboard for the Voder (Voice Operating Demonstrator), the first electronic device capable of generating continuous human speech. It accomplishes this feat ...

Long before Siri, there was Pedro the Voice Operation Demonstrator– "Voder" for short. This first machine to talk electronically was the brainchild of an engineer named Homer Dudley who worked at Bell ...

We are far too used to machine-made voices speaking to us in today's world. Be it the automated responses that are provided to us when we call for customer support, personal assistants in our ...