The Voder - Homer Dudley (Bell Labs) 1939
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Demonstrates the Voder, the first electronic speech synthesizer, and its manual real-time operation in 1939.
Linked by 15 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including hackaday.com, bigthink.com, jalopnik.com, historyofinformation.com, coit.es.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Voder.