Kraftwerk + something on-topic

[Charlie Mann]

On the Radioactivity album that Kraftwerk released in
> 1975, there is a track called Uranium that sounds like it is being done
> by a very primitive form of speech synthesis (not a vocoded human
> voice).  I thought that speech synthesis did not come about until
> sometime in the late 70's (i.e. sometime after 1975).  Does anyone have
> any idea what they used to pull this off back in 1975?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brett D

Hi Brett,
check this page:

http://www.china.co.uk/120_years/machines/vocoder/index.html


there are other pages dealing with the Voder synthesizer.  Try a HOTBOT
search on Voder or Dudley, Homer.
The page above has a pretty good sound (au) file.

happy days,
Charlie Mann