How to wreck a nice beachDave Tompkins
How to wreck a nice beach
by Dave Tompkins · first published 2010
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There is a great book called "How To Wreck a Nice Beach" ( https://www.amazon.com/How-Wreck-Nice-Beach-Vocoder/dp/16121... ) about the history of voder/vocoders. The title comes from a difficulty in synthesizing the phrase "How to Recognize Speech" and having…
on “The Voder, the First Machine to Create Human Speech” ↗A great book to read on this topic is 'How To Wreck A Nice Beach" https://www.amazon.com/How-Wreck-Nice-Beach-Vocoder/dp/16121...
on “SIGSALY – Secure Speech System Used in WWII by the Allies” ↗Obligatory link to ‘How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from WWII to Hip Hop’, http://howtowreckanicebeach.com/?page_id=14.
on “Speech Intellegibility in Naval Aircraft Radios (1972) [pdf]” ↗Wild, I literally just this week started reading “How to wreck a nice beach” [0] which is already turning out to be a pretty entertaining book. And then this turns up. Thanks HN! [0] https://archive.org/details/howtowrecknicebe0000tomp
on “SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president” ↗