Before Siri spoke up as the iPhone's digital assistant or the Amazon Echo was taking requests in people's homes, there was the granddaddy of all talking devices. (Laughter) Everybody that robotic ...

In 1939 at the World’s Fair in New York City, Bell Labs debuted the “Voder”, a device that electronically synthesized human speech for the first time. You can see the Voder in action here: The Voder ...

This curious colloquy took place last week in Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, where engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories and a trained operator demonstrated a complicated electronic device ...

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 ...

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 ...