Editing Voder (section)

== Introduction ==
The Voder, short for "Voice Operation DEmonstratoR", stands as a pioneering achievement in the realm of speech synthesis technology. Conceived and developed by an American electronic and acoustic engineer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Dudley Homer Dudley] in the 1930s at Bell Labs, the Voder was a groundbreaking invention that laid the conceptual groundwork for subsequent advancements in the speech synthesis field and paved the way for the sophisticated Text To Speech technologies we rely upon today.

Designed similarly to an organ – a musical instrument with pedals and keys – Voder demanded an operator to manipulate its components effectively: through this manipulation, the machine could approximate speech-like sounds, portraying a semblance of human communication.

Desite the fact that the voice quality was rather limited and the machine required months of training to master, the invention of Voder has sparked interest and paved the way for speech synthesis. In fact, the idea of Voder and the application of filter-source model heavily influenced the later developments.