Voder Speech Synthesizer (1939)

The Voder was an early attempt at speech synthesis developed by Bell Telephone Laboratory for the 1939 New York World's Fair. Controlled by hand, the operator manually forms each syllable using complex button sequences, and it would take about a year of practice to able to produce fluid speech. This website allows you to put yourself in the shoes of the few women capable of operating the Voder.

Development

Local development requires npm and is as easy as:

npm run serve

This command will dynamically rebuild the app on source file changes. If you are maintaing your own fork, then deploying new versions of the app to GitHub is similarly easy:

npm run deploy