In the history of speech technology, the vocoder plays the role of a “guiding fossil”, which introduced the ways to speech analysis and synthesis with electronic means. The general approach is continuously important in contemporary communication systems, but now with digital implementations. This paper describes a research project of Sennheiser electronic from the 1970s, which gives an impressive example for the transition from the classical analog systems to digital, computer-based solutions.
Cite as: Hoffmann, R., Gramm, G. (2017) The Sennheiser vocoder goes digital - on a German R&D project in the 1970s. Proc. Second International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR 2017), 35-44, doi: 10.21437/HSCR.2017-4
@inproceedings{hoffmann17_hscr,
author={Rüdiger Hoffmann and Gritta Gramm},
title={{The Sennheiser vocoder goes digital - on a German R&D project in the 1970s}},
year=2017,
booktitle={Proc. Second International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR 2017)},
pages={35--44},
doi={10.21437/HSCR.2017-4}
}