Vocoder
noun
1.
an electronic device that synthesizes speech.
noun
1.
(music) a type of synthesizer that uses the human voice as an oscillator
communications
Hardware or software which implements a compression algorithm particular to voice.
For example Qualcomm uses a vocoding algorithm to compresses voice data in digital communication systems such as wireless CDMA and Eudora voice attach.
(1998-04-29)
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