How to Wreck a Nice Beach by Dave Tompkins

Author:Dave Tompkins
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781933633886
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2010-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Siemens vocoder circa 1969. Munich-based electronics giant Siemens developed a 50,000 DM vocoder for their music studio in 1959. The Siemens model would later be used for talking cars, Swiss chocolate commercials and data-processing systems. (Courtesy Siemens Corporate Archives, Munich) (illustration credit 8.11)

THE FEDERAL SCREW WORKS, WITH A LITTLE URANIUM

Had the Electrifying Mojo’s cab taken I-75, he could’ve ended up at the Federal Screw Works, an automotive parts company based in Troy, Michigan. In 1971, the Federal Screw Works introduced Voltrax, a Vocal Interface Division that developed a line of speaking machines controlled by fingers, eye movements and breath. Called “Handi-Voice,” the Votrax text-to-speech chip originated in a declassified military algorithm, foreshadowing chips that would be implanted in arcade robot shootouts like Berserk. The Votrax market would include outgoing office phone messages, children with paralyzed vocal cords and, by accident, Kraftwerk.

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