How to Use vocoder in a Sentence
vocoder
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Zedd mans the keys and the vocoder while Grey handle guitar and drums.
—Kat Bein, Billboard, 22 May 2018
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There’s this piece of music in Blonde where Warren’s singing into a vocoder.
—Vulture, 11 May 2022
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From there, the spectrogram is then turned into actual speech by a vocoder based on WaveNet.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2018
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Think high-energy dance tunes with Cher's signature vocals ... and just a hint of vocoder.
—Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2018
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Daft Punk vocoder backing vocals are the final flourish.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2020
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Cudo and Violent Bear will fill you with indie rock vibes and Rubeo will perform his brand of electro-pop, with keys and a vocoder.
—Chris Haghirian, kansascity, 5 Mar. 2018
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When this song came out, people criticized its use of vocoder, but nothing could stop its meteoric rise on the charts.
—Kat Bein, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2021
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Madonna sings through a vocoder as Blanco thrashes around a circle of judges, newly dressed in saintly garb.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 7 June 2019
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Lead singer Shun Ikegai used a vocoder to fold his voice into the electro layers of sound, creating a spacey, deep, and sometimes menacing atmosphere.
—Rob Schwartz, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2017
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The rest of Random Access Memories 10th Anniversary bonus tracks include outtakes, early versions, demos, and vocoder tests of songs that both made and didn’t make the final track list.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2023
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Ambiguous lyrical mantras float through raspy vocoders toward a glitchy, percussive hook.
—Kat Bein, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2019
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Drawing upon the vocoder’s association with the otherworldly, Stevens spends much of the record running his voice through machines.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 June 2017
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Flight Facilities‘ original has an almost irresistible vocoder vocal hook that seemed perfect for a dance floor rod.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 9 July 2021
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His compositions can mix electronic sounds with acoustic ones—drum machines, drum kits, multiple layers of droning synths, piano, vocoder.
—Vogue, 4 Dec. 2020
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