Explore the fascinating evolution of the vocoder, talkbox, and Auto-Tune, tracing their journey from Bell Labs through World War II to their influence on Daft Punk in this episode of Version History.

* Photo: Joseph Maida * From Lil Wayne's cyborg-slick singing on "Lollipop" to the Twiki-tweaked vocals of T-Pain, use of the voice-enhancing software Auto-Tune has reached a fever pitch. But it turns ...

Stop Smiling Books/ Melville House; 335 pp. The room contains two turntables and a microphone. Hulking consoles line the walls, covered in dials and gauges and blinking lights, like the bridge of ...

“I couldn’t believe it… I didn’t think anyone in their right mind would use it that way.” Auto-Tune is not just the inhuman warbling debuted by Cher in 1998. This staple of today’s pop music is much ...

It may have taken longer than expected, but Auto-Tune may finally be dead. Last week, T-Pain told the LA Times that he was hanging up his vocoder. "I'm done with Auto-Tune,” the “Buy U a Drank” singer ...

That's right, the Grammy-winning artist, who developed his signature sound thanks to the use of vocal effect Auto-Tune, has announced that he will no longer be using the voice processor. He is leaving ...